Re: something decodes my headers...

[Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>]

jas@extundo.com (Simon Josefsson) writes:

> What does "works" mean?

It doesn't fail in the way that's being complained about.

> I'm not aware of any standards that define
> how non-ASCII email address phrases should work (RFC (2)822 even
> forbid them) except MIME, so any implementation claiming to support it
> if it doesn't use MIME is ad-hoc at best.

It's obviously intended for use with decoded addresses, which is how
it's being used.

> In that case, I wish the way it works was documented.

You'll need to make a bug report if you're not happy.  I haven't
actually touched it, though I'd have guessed I made the relevant
change.

> It is not clear to me how to go from the RFC 822 address phrase to
> multilingual names, if you are not using MIME.

It's clear you can't pick apart a single MIME encoded word in the way
mail-extr tries to.  It must be decoded, and the exact (2)822 grammar
is irrelevant.

> Of course, mail-extr doesn't
> understand the RFC 822 BNF at all, so it is not easy to realize that
> whatever mail-extr implement is according to any standard derived from
> the BNF.

I don't understand that.  The BNF is largely irrelevant for extracting
personal names from addresses as far as I can tell.