The following bug has been CLOSED
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http://dbmail.org/mantis/bug_view_advanced_page.php?bug_id=0000108
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Reported By: seanxkelly
Assigned To: aaron
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Project: DBMail
Bug ID: 108
Category: Command-Line programs (dbmail-users, dbmail-util)
Reproducibility: always
Severity: major
Priority: normal
Status: closed
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Date Submitted: 23-Oct-04 23:35 CEST
Last Modified: 13-Dec-04 11:36 CET
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Summary: dbmail-users does not allow apostrophe in alias
Description:
When trying to add an alias e-mail address containing an apostrophe,
dbmail-users exits with "command failed".
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aaron - 25-Oct-04 10:11 CEST
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Are apostrophe's allowed characters in email addresses? We also have a
problem receiving them. If they should be allowed, well, let's make them
work!
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paul - 25-Oct-04 10:38 CEST
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Aaron,
Quickly reading over rfc2822 reveals that basically anything goes in
addresses, esp when quoted.
Some relevant excepts:
3.2.4. Atom
Several productions in structured header field bodies are simply
strings of certain basic characters. Such productions are called
atoms.
Some of the structured header field bodies also allow the period
character (".", ASCII value 46) within runs of atext. An additional
"dot-atom" token is defined for those purposes.
atext = ALPHA / DIGIT / ; Any character except controls,
"!" / "#" / ; SP, and specials.
"$" / "%" / ; Used for atoms
"&" / "'" /
"*" / "+" /
"-" / "/" /
"=" / "?" /
"^" / "_" /
"`" / "{" /
"|" / "}" /
"~"
atom = [CFWS] 1*atext [CFWS]
dot-atom = [CFWS] dot-atom-text [CFWS]
dot-atom-text = 1*atext *("." 1*atext)
Both atom and dot-atom are interpreted as a single unit, comprised of
the string of characters that make it up. Semantically, the optional
comments and FWS surrounding the rest of the characters are not part
of the atom; the atom is only the run of atext characters in an atom,
or the atext and "." characters in a dot-atom.
3.2.5. Quoted strings
Strings of characters that include characters other than those
allowed in atoms may be represented in a quoted string format, where
the characters are surrounded by quote (DQUOTE, ASCII value 34)
characters.
qtext = NO-WS-CTL / ; Non white space controls
%d33 / ; The rest of the US-ASCII
%d35-91 / ; characters not including "\"
%d93-126 ; or the quote character
qcontent = qtext / quoted-pair
quoted-string = [CFWS]
DQUOTE *([FWS] qcontent) [FWS] DQUOTE
[CFWS]
A quoted-string is treated as a unit. That is, quoted-string is
identical to atom, semantically. Since a quoted-string is allowed to
contain FWS, folding is permitted. Also note that since quoted-pair
is allowed in a quoted-string, the quote and backslash characters may
appear in a quoted-string so long as they appear as a quoted-pair.
Semantically, neither the optional CFWS outside of the quote
characters nor the quote characters themselves are part of the
quoted-string; the quoted-string is what is contained between the two
quote characters. As stated earlier, the "\" in any quoted-pair and
the CRLF in any FWS/CFWS that appears within the quoted-string are
semantically "invisible" and therefore not part of the quoted-string
either.
[snip]
3.4.1. Addr-spec specification
An addr-spec is a specific Internet identifier that contains a
locally interpreted string followed by the at-sign character ("@",
ASCII value 64) followed by an Internet domain. The locally
interpreted string is either a quoted-string or a dot-atom. If the
string can be represented as a dot-atom (that is, it contains no
characters other than atext characters or "." surrounded by atext
characters), then the dot-atom form SHOULD be used and the
quoted-string form SHOULD NOT be used. Comments and folding white
space SHOULD NOT be used around the "@" in the addr-spec.
addr-spec = local-part "@" domain
local-part = dot-atom / quoted-string / obs-local-part
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aaron - 01-Nov-04 00:39 CET
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Fixed in HEAD. Will resolve the bug once it's also fixed in
dbmail_2_0_branch.
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aaron - 06-Nov-04 09:38 CET
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Fixed in dbmail_2_0_branch.
Bug History
Date Modified Username Field Change
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23-Oct-04 23:35seanxkelly New Bug
23-Oct-04 23:35seanxkelly Bug Monitored: seanxkelly
25-Oct-04 10:11aaron Bugnote Added: 0000319
25-Oct-04 10:38paul Bugnote Added: 0000321
01-Nov-04 00:39aaron Bugnote Added: 0000328
01-Nov-04 00:40aaron Assigned To => aaron
01-Nov-04 00:40aaron Status new => assigned
06-Nov-04 09:38aaron Bugnote Added: 0000345
06-Nov-04 09:38aaron Resolution open => fixed
06-Nov-04 09:38aaron Status assigned => resolved
13-Dec-04 11:36ilja Status resolved => closed
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