[issue32058] Faulty behaviour in email.utils.parseaddr if square brackets in subject

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> added the comment:

parseaddr is for parsing the contents of an address header, not for parsing any additional text.  So the correct way to call it is parseaddress('someone <some at email.address>').

In any case, please look in to the new email policies, which provide a much more convenient API:

    >>> from email import message_from_bytes
    >>> from email.policy import default
    >>> m = message_from_bytes(b'Subject: I am a bug [Random]\r\nFrom: someone <some at email.address>\r\n\r\n', policy=default)
    >>> m['from']
    'someone <some at email.address>'
    >>> m['from'].addresses
    (Address(display_name='someone', username='some', domain='email.address'),)
    >>> m['from'].addresses[0].display_name
    'someone'
    >>> m['from'].addresses[0].username
    'some'
    >>> m['from'].addresses[0].addr_spec
    'some at email.address'

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resolution:  -> not a bug
stage:  -> resolved
status: open -> closed

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