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From: "Michał Mirosław" <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: tools@linux.kernel.org, konstantin@linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [tools] b4: UTF-8 in replies
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2020 12:13:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201003101345.GA4163@qmqm.qmqm.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201002210950.GH5527@sirena.org.uk>

On Fri, Oct 02, 2020 at 10:09:50PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 03:26:00PM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> 
> > Hrmph, apparently my assumption on what headers will be generated by 
> > policy=8bit was pretty wrong. I pushed a commit to master and 
> > stable-0.5.y that should properly set the charset and generate the 
> > necessary headers.
> 
> This fix seems to have caused some issues for me - using msmtp with
> kernel.org on 1594818110-786-1-git-send-email-brent.lu@intel.com I'm
> getting headers with:
> 
> To: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Brent Lu <brent.lu@intel.com>
> Cc: =?utf-8?q?linux-kernel=40vger=2Ekernel=2Eorg=2C_Kai_Vehmanen_=3Ckai=2Eve?=
>  =?utf-8?q?hmanen=40linux=2Eintel=2Ecom=3E=2C_Pierre-Louis_Bossart_=3Cpierre?=
>  =?utf-8?q?-louis=2Ebossart=40linux=2Eintel=2Ecom=3E=2C_Takashi_Iwai_=3Ctiwa?=
>  =?utf-8?q?i=40suse=2Ecom=3E=2C_Guennadi_Liakhovetski_=3Cguennadi=2Eliakhove?=
>  =?utf-8?q?tski=40linux=2Eintel=2Ecom=3E=2C_Liam_Girdwood_=3Clgirdwood=40gma?=
>  =?utf-8?q?il=2Ecom=3E=2C_Amadeusz_S=C5=82awi=C5=84ski_=3Camadeuszx=2Eslawin?=
>  =?utf-8?q?ski=40linux=2Eintel=2Ecom=3E?=

RFC 2047 section 6.2. suggests that this encoding is invalid, because it
encodes structural characters (commas in this case) -- the MTA/MUA
might treat the whole 'Cc:' as one entry. Also, section 5 point 3 of the
RFC forbids encoding the addr-spec part (mail address if I understand
correctly).

Best Regards,
Michał Mirosław

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-03 10:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20201001171405.GA17873@qmqm.qmqm.pl>
2020-10-01 18:05 ` b4: UTF-8 in replies Konstantin Ryabitsev
2020-10-01 18:09   ` [tools] " Mark Brown
2020-10-01 18:36   ` Michał Mirosław
2020-10-01 18:41     ` Michał Mirosław
2020-10-01 19:26       ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2020-10-02 21:09         ` [tools] " Mark Brown
2020-10-03 10:13           ` Michał Mirosław [this message]
2020-10-03 10:18             ` Michał Mirosław
2020-10-03 14:40               ` Konstantin Ryabitsev

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