#3898: UTF-8 character in References header
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Reporter: kevin8t8 | Owner: mutt-dev
Type: defect | Status: closed
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: MIME | Version:
Resolution: wontfix | Keywords:
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Changes (by kevin8t8):
* status: new => closed
* resolution: => wontfix
Comment:
After more discussion on mutt-dev (from people much more knowledgeable
than I), and reviewing rfc5322 and 2047, there isn't anything Mutt should
really be doing in this case.
The utf-8 character should not be in the left-side of the references msg-
id, but there is no proper way to encode it. Rfc2047 is not supposed to
be used on structured header fields, except in comment/phrase parts that
have no influence on their interpretation. So Fastmail did the wrong
thing in this case.
The rfc653x series is phasing in unencoded utf-8 support in the local and
domain part of addresses, so I don't think there would be a benefit in
removing or somehow touching the message-id in this case.
Given that, as you mentioned on irc, this may have been generated by a
user fat-fingering a git command-line argument, I don't see this as worth
fretting too much over. So I'm going to close this as wont-fix.
Thank you for the bug report, though!
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3898#comment:1>
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