[Dovecot] Address with whitespace shows as ""@MISSING_DOMAIN

Chris Wakelin c.d.wakelin at reading.ac.uk
Mon Mar 28 14:24:39 EEST 2005


Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 10:49 +0000, Chris Wakelin wrote:
> 
>>It seems that Dovecot gets confused when presented with a header like:
>>
>>From:    someone at somewhere.org
>>
>>i.e. with leading whitespace and no "friendly name"
>>This shows up as ""@MISSING_DOMAIN in clients, such as Pine, that 
>>believe what Dovecot tells them rather than parsing the headers 
>>themselves (e.g. Thunderbird).
> 
> 
> Whops. I was skipping spaces everywhere else except at the beginning.
> 

Now works except for my test of

From:     "someone at somewhere.org"

(which may not be legal. I've not seen any examples of this, anyway!)

Best Wishes,
Chris

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