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RE: [bug-mailutils] Mailutils 0.6.1 - Problem with URL parsing?
From: |
Alain Magloire |
Subject: |
RE: [bug-mailutils] Mailutils 0.6.1 - Problem with URL parsing? |
Date: |
Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:44:35 -0500 |
> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:bug-mailutils-
> address@hidden On Behalf Of Otto Maddox
> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 6:50 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [bug-mailutils] Mailutils 0.6.1 - Problem with URL parsing?
>
> I'm using Mailutils 0.6.1 on Debian GNU/Linux.
>
> I think there is an issue with URL parsing, in that it seems not to handle
> usernames with "@" in them (such usernames are becoming increasingly
> common).
>
> $ mailx --tls --
> file=imap://address@hidden@mail.messagingengine.com
> Cannot open mailbox
> imap://address@hidden@mail.messagingengine.com: DNS name
> resolution failed
>
> where "address@hidden" is my username, and
> "mail.messagingengine.com" is the server. This sort of problem happens
> with other programs too, for example, movemail.
>
> Any comments or ideas?
>
The '@' is an unsafe/reserve character for URL, I do not remember the
complete list, see the RFC in the doc directory. You will need to encode
the character '%xx' meaning '%' followed by two hexa digits.