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vm: 8bit characters are not escaped in In-reply-to field

Bug #490023 reported by Manoj
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
VM
Fix Released
Low
Ulrich Müller
vm (Debian)
Fix Released
Unknown

Bug Description

When I reply to an email from someone with an 8-bit character in their name, such as
  "=?iso-8859-1?Q?V=EDctor_Paesa?=" <email address hidden>

The In-reply-to field gets the un-escaped name:
  In-Reply-To: message from Víctor Paesa on Sunday July 15

And a number of mail systems reject the email as 8bit characters in headers are illegal.

Changed in vm (Debian):
status: Unknown → New
Revision history for this message
Uday Reddy (reddyuday) wrote :

I agree that this is a bug. But, if you leave the variable vm-in-reply-to-format with its default value "%i" then you won't have this problem.

Changed in vm:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Low
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Uday Reddy (reddyuday) wrote :

You can also try setting the variable vm-mime-encode-headers-regexp to include other headers. -- Uday

Changed in vm:
assignee: nobody → Ulrich Müller (ulm)
Changed in vm (Debian):
status: New → Confirmed
Uday Reddy (reddyuday)
tags: added: international
Revision history for this message
Ulrich Müller (ulm) wrote :

I've added the following sentence to the documentation of vm-in-reply-to-format:

If the format includes elements with non-ASCII characters, then "In-Reply-To" should be added to `vm-mime-encode-headers-regexp'.

Changed in vm:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
milestone: none → 8.1.0-beta
Revision history for this message
Uday Reddy (reddyuday) wrote : [Vm] [Bug 490023] Re: vm: 8bit characters are not escaped in In-reply-to field

Ulrich Müller writes:

> I've added the following sentence to the documentation of vm-in-reply-
> to-format:
>
> If the format includes elements with non-ASCII characters, then "In-
> Reply-To" should be added to `vm-mime-encode-headers-regexp'.

Great! I am happy with that.

Cheers,
Uday

Uday Reddy (reddyuday)
Changed in vm:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Uday Reddy (reddyuday)
Changed in vm:
milestone: 8.1.0b → 8.1.0
Changed in vm (Debian):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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