[Email-SIG] encoding To headers

[Brian Kirsch]

Count me in!
A robust email address parser and improved header support sound like  
worth while causes to me.



Brian Kirsch - Email Framework Engineer
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On Jan 15, 2005, at 8:22 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 05:55, Stuart Bishop wrote:
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>> Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>> | It's been a month since I posted this; can I safely assume nobody  
>> knows
>> | the answer or is it just not possible?
>>
>> I never saw your original message sorry.
>>
>> There is code that will correctly encode and decode email addresses at
>> http://stuartbishop.net/Software/EmailAddress. It handles the case you
>> mention, as well as handling Unicode domain names if you should ever
>> actually see one.
>>
>> |>I am trying to figure out how to use an 'internationaled' To-header  
>> but
>> |>not succeeding so far. The basic documented approach does not work:
>> |>
>> |>
>> |>>>>mail["From"]=email.Header.Header(, "utf-8")
>> |>>>>print mail.as_string()
>> |>
>> |>[...]
>> |>From: =?utf-8?b?dMODwrhzdGk=?=
>> |>
>> |>this is not allowed by the RFCs: the address must not be encoded.  
>> Using
>> |>quoted-printable would fix this but I can not find any documentation
>> |>as to how to do that.
>> |>
>> |>All current documentation mentions that specifying encoders is
>> |>deprecated, but without setting them the email module seems to  
>> insist on
>> |>using base64 encoding.
>> |>
>> |>Wichert.
>
> Stuart,
>
> I wonder if it makes sense to try to fold this into the email package?
>
> On a related note, Pycon2005 is coming up soon and I will be attending.
> There are four days of sprints preceding the conference and last year,
> Anthony, Thomas and I sprinted on the new feed parser.  While we didn't
> finish that work during the sprint, I think that session was more
> successful than my following Mailman3 sprint.  The fruits of the email
> sprint are evident in the new FeedParser that's part of email 3.0.
>
> Does anybody want to sprint on the email package again this year?  Some
> things we could work on include:
>
> - An RFC compliant email address parser
>
> - Adding better header support
>
> - Adding a persistency and/or external storage API, or developing a
> relational model for storing email messages.
>
> - Another round of API fixes, and/or sprinting on bugs.
>
> - Switching the Python stdlib away from deprecated modules such as
> rfc822.
>
> Let's gather some thoughts here and if there's enough interest, I'll
> sign up for a sprint at Pycon2005.
>
> -Barry
>
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