Jitterbug-Id: 39 Submitted-By: piers@cs.su.oz.au Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 01:34:24 -0400 (EDT) Version: 1.5.2 OS: Solaris The following mail header, when parsed by rfc822, returns an incorrect address from the method getaddr: From nobody@bounces.amazon.com Thu Jul 29 18:09:07 1999 Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 00:05:26 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=z Subject: A Message from Amazon.com Delivers From: Amazon.com <delivers-news2@amazon.com> >>> import rfc822 >>> fd=open('mail/amazon.com') >>> M=rfc822.Message(fd, 1) >>> M.getaddr('From') ('', 'Amazon.com') Python version is: Python 1.5.2 (#10, May 11 1999, 15:32:03) [GCC 2.8.1] on sunos5 ==================================================================== Audit trail: Fri Jul 30 08:25:26 1999 guido moved from incoming to open
From: Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd@oratrix.nl> Subject: Re: [Python-bugs-list] rfc822.Message getaddr method bug (PR#39) Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 14:09:40 +0200 On Fri, Jul 30 1999 piers@cs.su.oz.au wrote: > Full_Name: Piers Lauder > Version: 1.5.2 > OS: Solaris > Submission from: metra.ucc.usyd.edu.au (129.78.64.5) > > > The following mail header, when parsed by rfc822, returns an incorrect > address from the method getaddr: > > From nobody@bounces.amazon.com Thu Jul 29 18:09:07 1999 > Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 00:05:26 -0700 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=z > Subject: A Message from Amazon.com Delivers > From: Amazon.com <delivers-news2@amazon.com> > > >>> import rfc822 > >>> fd=open('mail/amazon.com') > >>> M=rfc822.Message(fd, 1) > >>> M.getaddr('From') > ('', 'Amazon.com') > > Python version is: > Python 1.5.2 (#10, May 11 1999, 15:32:03) [GCC 2.8.1] on sunos5 It's an incorrect mail header. The period in Amazon.com is not allowed there but the name has to be quoted with double quotes. But I guess rfc822.py could (and should) be lenient and let you get away with this. -- Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd.mullender@oratrix.com>
