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bug#51733: 27.1; Detect impossible email addresses better
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#51733: 27.1; Detect impossible email addresses better |
Date: |
Wed, 19 Jan 2022 13:54:37 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> This is unfortunate. It means, for example, that a simple lazy
> discovery of suspicious addresses by scanning the email reading buffer
> with regular expressions will not work, and the feature must instead
> scan the original mbox buffer.
There's no scanning -- rmail displays the From header, right? So it
does decoding before displaying the header. It has to do the textsec
stuff first, too.
> Why cannot we lift this restriction? mail-header-parse-address is not
> the only way to parse email addresses. Or maybe we could encode the
> email address if the original one causes an error?
There is no reliable way to parse a decoded mail address, and since this
is a security thing, we don't want to do DWIM and guesses (which is what
you have to do when composing a valid email address from a string like
"Fóo, Jr. <foo@example.com>").
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- bug#51733: 27.1; Detect impossible email addresses better, (continued)
- bug#51733: 27.1; Detect impossible email addresses better, Andreas Schwab, 2022/01/19
- bug#51733: 27.1; Detect impossible email addresses better, Robert Pluim, 2022/01/19
- bug#51733: 27.1; Detect impossible email addresses better, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/01/19
- bug#51733: 27.1; Detect impossible email addresses better, Robert Pluim, 2022/01/19
- bug#51733: 27.1; Detect impossible email addresses better, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/01/19
- bug#51733: 27.1; Detect impossible email addresses better, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/01/19
- bug#51733: 27.1; Detect impossible email addresses better,
Lars Ingebrigtsen <=
- bug#51733: 27.1; Detect impossible email addresses better, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/01/19
- bug#51733: 27.1; Detect impossible email addresses better, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/01/19
- bug#51733: 27.1; Detect impossible email addresses better, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/01/19
- bug#51733: 27.1; Detect impossible email addresses better, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/01/19
- bug#51733: 27.1; Detect impossible email addresses better, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/01/19
- bug#51733: 27.1; Detect impossible email addresses better, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/01/19
- bug#51733: 27.1; Detect impossible email addresses better, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/01/19
- bug#51733: 27.1; Detect impossible email addresses better, Andreas Schwab, 2022/01/19
- bug#51733: 27.1; Detect impossible email addresses better, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/01/19
- bug#51733: 27.1; Detect impossible email addresses better, Andreas Schwab, 2022/01/19