[New-bugs-announce] [issue43554] email: encoded headers lose their quoting when refolded

[Emil Styrke]

New submission from Emil Styrke <emil.styrke at gmail.com>:

When a header with an encoded (QP or Base64) display_name is refolded, it may lose (some of) its encoding.  If it then contains illegal "atext" tokens, an invalid header will result.

For example, `From: =?utf-8?Q?a=2C=20123456789012345678901234567890123456?= <abc at example.com>` will become `From: a, 123456789012345678901234567890123456 <abc at example.com>`  This contains a comma character which needs to be quoted: correct rendering would be `From: "a, 123456789012345678901234567890123456" <abc at example.com>`. Note that this example isn't even folded to multiple lines, since the decoded text is short enough to fit in one line.

This can be triggered by `BytesParser(policy=policy.default).parsebytes("From: =?utf-8?Q?a=2C=20123456789012345678901234567890123456?= <abc at example.com>").as_bytes()`, but the offending code seems to be in or below `email.policy.EmailPolicy.fold`.  See attached file for examples with and without folding.

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components: Library (Lib)
files: test_folding_bug.py
messages: 389061
nosy: Emil.Styrke
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: email: encoded headers lose their quoting when refolded
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.9
Added file: https://bugs.python.org/file49893/test_folding_bug.py

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