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bug#33613: 25.2; mail-header-parse-address: scan-error "Unbalanced paren
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Glenn Morris |
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bug#33613: 25.2; mail-header-parse-address: scan-error "Unbalanced parenthesis" 7 32 |
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Date: |
Tue, 04 Dec 2018 15:02:14 -0500 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
micah anderson wrote:
> Yeah, the text that comes before the <dre@foo.net> in an OpenPGP userID
> is defined as arbitrary UTF-8 text, so it should not be considered to be
> following any email address standard.
OK, but there's a de facto standard [1] that it be a normal email
address. GPG for example won't create a uid like the one in this report
without --allow-freeform-uid, which "should only be used in very special
environments".
[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4880#section-5.11
"By convention, it includes an RFC 2822 mail name-addr".