Dear Mime4J developers,
I use android and both the builtin Email client and the K-9 replacement delete
e-mail addresses containing accented characters. (If say "Pétér
<[email protected]>" sends me an e-mail and I hit 'Reply', the 'To' field becomes
blank.)
I can barely read Java, but I understood from K-9 source they use your Mime4J
for e-mail address parsing (and thus validation).
I was not able to compile the code downloaded from your site (I know nothing
about Maven, I installed it but running 'mvn test' tried to download something
and failed.)
I compiled K-9 (the source of which includes a version of mime4j) and I guess
this exception is exactly the reason why they remove addresses with accented
characters:
22:39 vaio classes$java org.apache.james.mime4j.field.address.AddressList
> Pétér <[email protected]>
Pétér <[email protected]>
org.apache.james.mime4j.field.address.parser.ParseException: Lexical error at
line 1, column 2. Encountered: "\u00e9" (233), after : ""
at
org.apache.james.mime4j.field.address.parser.AddressListParser.parse(AddressListParser.java:42)
at
org.apache.james.mime4j.field.address.AddressList.parse(AddressList.java:116)
at
org.apache.james.mime4j.field.address.AddressList.main(AddressList.java:132)
I've read your remark somewhere that you're deliberately not handling Base64 or
Quoted-Printable, but this is plain UTF-8 so that shouldn't pose a problem.
My question is simple: who should I blame ;-)
With apologies for a question from a non-Javist,
Ondrej Bojar.
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Ondrej Bojar (mailto:[email protected] / [email protected])
http://www.cuni.cz/~obo
