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Gnus does not handle quoting in quoted strings correctly.


From: Sascha Wilde
Subject: Gnus does not handle quoting in quoted strings correctly.
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:38:28 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Hi *,

if you have a mail with

From: "foo \[bar\]" <address@hidden>

in the headers, gnus displays the from literately as

foo \[bar\]

but according to RfC822/2822 "\" is used in quoted strings as special
quoting character and is always (no matter if necessary or not)
semantically "invisible".  So it should read:

foo [bar]


The other way around, when writing display names in quoted strings, no
quoting is done even when it would be needed.  Writing a message with

From: "foo/bar" <address@hidden>

the From: header is copied verbatim to the outgoing mail, but should
get quoted like:

From: "foo//bar" <address@hidden>

cheers
sascha
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Sascha Wilde
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