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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update | ||||
| 0001044 | SiT! | inbound email | public | 2010-01-19 09:08 | 2011-06-04 16:02 | ||||
| Reporter | nicdev | ||||||||
| Assigned To | ivan | ||||||||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always | ||||
| Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | ||||||
| Platform | Windows | OS | Windows | OS Version | XP+Later | ||||
| Product Version | 3.50 | ||||||||
| Target Version | 3.90beta1 | Fixed in Version | Current GIT | ||||||
| Summary | 0001044: Issues with special characters in email addresses | ||||||||
| Description | Having discussed this before at length, it has come to our knowledge that characters may be used in email addresses, and it seems to be more and more the case. For internet based providers these are generally not allowed (like hotmail), but it seems in the commercial domains, the rules are more relaxed. According to RFC 3696 and errata we found this: The local-part of the e-mail address may use any of these ASCII characters: * Uppercase and lowercase English letters (a-z, A-Z) * Digits 0 to 9 * Characters ! # $ % & ' * + - / = ? ^ _ ` { | } ~ * Character . (dot, period, full stop) provided that it is not the first or last character, and provided also that it does not appear two or more times consecutively. We have had one customer with a ' in his address, and even though the email now imports correctly (thanks to Ivan's changes to the inbound email script), the further steps like creating the case from the holding queue failed. I propose that we have a look at this as it may in future become an issue .. | ||||||||
| Additional Information | as a temporary workaround i am writing a line into the inbound script for this one guy's email address, but if there are more it will become unmanageable. I will try to find exactly where the issue is occurring in the creation process as it was not me that created the case. | ||||||||
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 (0002290)ivan (administrator) 2010-01-19 10:31 |
I wasn't aware we still had these issues, but I agree that we need to do some extensive testing around this and make sure that all possible combinations work fine. It would help a lot to have some test cases, some example email addresses that are known to fail. You haven't specifically mentioned but I assume that this is an issue for incoming email only? |
 (0002398)nicdev (developer) 2010-02-20 11:59 |
Ivan, Yes this is incoming mail issues. I rememeber the guy had a ' in his address. I need to be at work next week to send an example email. |
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(0002696) ivan (administrator) 2010-03-14 19:04 |
Tested this with the current Git 4.x branch and the ridiculous email address of !#$%&'*+-/=?^_`{|}~@example.com And the tempincoming table held no email address, so yes, somewhere along the line we still have a problem with this. |
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(0003158) nicdev (developer) 2010-05-18 18:52 edited on: 2010-05-18 18:53 |
UPDATE: This also affects Outgoing email, will have to encode all address fields for inbound and outbound email. We also had an email address with an '&' |
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(0003507) ivan (administrator) 2010-12-18 15:47 |
If there are issues with outgoing email separate bug reports need to be logged. |
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(0003508) ivan (administrator) 2010-12-18 15:53 |
Inbound email addresses containing & (ampersand) seem fine to me, testing with 3.63 pre-release (r6800) |
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(0003509) nicdev (developer) 2010-12-18 16:21 |
Thanks Ivan, I will log another bug for outgoing ;) When you imported the email, did it show correctly in the holding queue? Meaning did it "find" the contact and put it in the blue part of the list (known contacts)? |
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(0003511) ivan (administrator) 2010-12-18 16:56 |
r6815 adds a workaround |
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(0003512) ivan (administrator) 2010-12-19 11:31 |
Yes it shows correctly in the holding queue (with an ampersand in the address). It's not possible to fully test the insane test data address !#$%&'*+-/=?^_`{|}~@example.com because another bug means you can't configure that to be a contacts address. |
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(0003833) ivan (administrator) 2011-06-04 16:02 |
Fixed the last part of this in Git 1785753 |
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| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
| 2010-01-19 09:08 | nicdev | New Issue | |
| 2010-01-19 10:31 | ivan | Note Added: 0002290 | |
| 2010-01-19 10:31 | ivan | Status | new => confirmed |
| 2010-02-20 11:59 | nicdev | Note Added: 0002398 | |
| 2010-03-14 19:04 | ivan | Note Added: 0002696 | |
| 2010-03-14 19:07 | ivan | Target Version | => 4.0 |
| 2010-05-18 18:52 | nicdev | Note Added: 0003158 | |
| 2010-05-18 18:53 | nicdev | Note Edited: 0003158 | View Revisions |
| 2010-12-18 15:47 | ivan | Note Added: 0003507 | |
| 2010-12-18 15:53 | ivan | Note Added: 0003508 | |
| 2010-12-18 16:21 | nicdev | Note Added: 0003509 | |
| 2010-12-18 16:21 | ivan | Status | confirmed => assigned |
| 2010-12-18 16:21 | ivan | Assigned To | => ivan |
| 2010-12-18 16:56 | ivan | Note Added: 0003511 | |
| 2010-12-19 11:31 | ivan | Note Added: 0003512 | |
| 2011-02-14 13:21 | ivan | Target Version | 4.0 => 3.90beta1 |
| 2011-06-04 16:02 | ivan | Note Added: 0003833 | |
| 2011-06-04 16:02 | ivan | Status | assigned => resolved |
| 2011-06-04 16:02 | ivan | Fixed in Version | => Current GIT |
| 2011-06-04 16:02 | ivan | Resolution | open => fixed |
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