[Mailman-Users] diacritics in from header with from_is_list set to munge

[Mark Sapiro]

On 01/20/2016 11:38 AM, gabriel wrote:
> 
> i just noticed several times now that a bunch of users (most of them 
> subscribed with their yahoo email address) get bounced off my list 
> when the senders address contains diacritical marks in their 
> additional text field describing the name e.g 
> 
>   From: "valérie" <valerie at somesomain.com>
> 
> 
> the problem here occurs when setting /munge from/ in from_is_list. the 
> text between the quotes is merged with the string "via " and then the 
> name of the list e.g.
> 
>   From: "valérie via mylist <this at is.my.list>"


I am unable to duplicate this in my development version which I think is
no different from 2.1.20 in this regard.

I have tried posting a message with the exact From: header

From: "valérie" <valerie at somesomain.com>

with the é encoded as utf-8 and in another post encoded as iso-8859-1
and in both cases the message delivered from Mailman has

From: valérie via List1 <list1 at msapiro.net>
Reply-To: valérie <valerie at somesomain.com>

with no quotes and the é encoded as the same encoding as the posted message.

This could be a difference in the underlying Python email package. Mine
is Python 2.7.9 with email 4.0.3. What is yours? (do the following)

$ python
Python 2.7.9 (default, Apr  2 2015, 15:33:21)
[GCC 4.9.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import email
>>> email.__version__
'4.0.3'

Also, it might help if you post the exact From: and Reply-To: headers in
the garbled message.


> but in mailman 2.1.20 this merging breaks presumably because of the 
> character encoding.
> 
> what happens is that the From string in the mailman list header is no 
> longer a valid email address but two totally mixed up. the then have 
> the list name split accross both addresses and the domain is not 
> correct either.


I'm confused as to what you are saying here and how it relates to the

  From: "valérie via mylist <this at is.my.list>"

line in your post. Is that what the From: in the delivered message looks
like or just some representation of what you think it should look like?

In any case, the From: I see is

From: valérie via List1 <list1 at msapiro.net>

which is technically not valid because it contains a non-ascii
character, but even so, the message with that exact From: header is
accepted by Yahoo and delivered to my Yahoo address.

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