Developers of Sympa

[David Verdin <address@concealed>]

Is it related to the problem you submitted yesterday about Sympa not 
logging the scenario output ?
Regards,

Thomas Berry a écrit :
> Version: Sympa 5.3.2
>
>   We are experiencing a problem with authentication.  Sympa is 
> rejecting messages sent to lists which restrict posting to members or 
> owners.  I found that the messages being rejected are those that have 
> a sender address in the From header where the name before the email 
> address is not surrounded by double-quotes, but the email address is 
> surrounded by angle-brackets.
>
>   Having read through RFC 2822, it is not clear to me whether the name 
> (phrase) must be surrounded by double-quotes.  I have run some tests 
> with Thunderbird, but was unable to get it to fail when leaving the 
> name unquoted.
>
>   This was initially brought to our attention last week; I suggested 
> the name component be quoted or removed, which fixed the problem. But, 
> yesterday I receive another call for a different list with the same 
> problem.  I need to know if I should continue to require the sender 
> email address on the From header be quoted which appearing before the 
> email address, or (if RFC 2822 allows the name to be unquoted as long 
> as the email address is surrounded by angle-brackets) is there a patch 
> that can fix this sender authorization issue?
>
> Thomas

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David Verdin
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