On Sat, 2011-01-01 at 13:19 +0100, Stephan Bosch wrote: > >> To: "=?UTF-8?B?ImJpbmQtdXNlcnNAbGlzdHMuaXNjLm9yZyI=?=" > >> <[email protected]> > > I think this is a valid address.. > > + An 'encoded-word' MUST NOT appear within a 'quoted-string'. > > So, there does seem to be a bug in the mailer used by the person sending the > message.
Yes, but we'd still have this problem even if this wasn't inside a quoted-string, because encoded-words themselves can contain any characters. Also in RFC 2047: > NOTE: Decoding and display of encoded-words occurs *after* a > structured field body is parsed into tokens. It is therefore > possible to hide 'special' characters in encoded-words which, when > displayed, will be indistinguishable from 'special' characters in the > surrounding text. For this and other reasons, it is NOT generally > possible to translate a message header containing 'encoded-word's to > an unencoded form which can be parsed by an RFC 822 mail reader.
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