Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 2117
Issuezilla sometime generates mails with invalid addresses
Last modified: 2003-12-27 10:23:17 UTC
In the most recent past, I often get mails from Issuezilla (issues@openoffice.org) containing an invalid address (INVALID ADDRESS@.SYNTAX ERROR) in the cc field. For instance, this happened for two changes I did to issue 1881 and issue 1975 today (05th Nov. 2001). For #1975, I got two mails: one to issues@dba.openoffice.org (where I'm subscribed to), and one to fs@openoffice.org (which is my OOo account). Both came from issues@openoffice.org, and both contained the above-mentioned invalid e-mail address in the cc.
reassigning to myself for investigation
accepting issues
Reassigning all of kat's open issues to support so that I can go through them.
Looking into this. Frank, have you seen this again since the times you mention in this issue?
Actually, the mail I got notifying me of your question added to this issue had a "cc:INVALID ADDRESS@.SYNTAX ERROR". So the answer is yes :) Looking at the 65 issuezilla mails I got this year (mostly in the the dba area), 2 are correct, 1 contains the invalid address in "to", and 62 in "cc". If it would help you in your investigations I could supply you these mails (though I'd have to search for the mail export feature of SO 5.2 first :).
Subscribed to issues@dba.openoffice.org, issues@api.openoffice.org and issues@openoffice.org in order to confirm receipt of invalidaddress@.syntax.error in cc line.
Haven't received any e-mail with invalid address in the cc line yet. Frank, could you provide some of the issue numbers corresponding to these e-mails? Thanks,
Frank, Actually, it may be better if you could just forward a couple of the e-mails to me at kristen@collab.net Thanks,
arghhh .... Kristen, As I'm currently migrating to a new mail client (from SO 5.2 to Mozilla), I tried to use Mozilla to forward such invalid mails to you. Surprisingly, in Mozilla I don't see these invalid addresses. Looking at the plain text exported by Mozilla, the message contains a line consisting of "Cc: " (an Cc, a colon, and a space). This obviously provokes this INVALID stuff in SO 5.2, so at least a part of the issue is caused by SO 5.2 It seems that nearly all messages I get from OOo do contain this empty CC, while other messages I get from other sources don't. I'm not sure if this is only a client issue. Don't know if this empty CC is allowed or not. If not, it seems to be at least a (minor) problem at OOo. Anyway, I apologize for making that much trouble :( for nearly nothing. I would have no problem with closing this issue, if you say that this empty CC is not worth beeing tracked.
Hmm, this is very interesting.... I would be interested in checking with someone who knows the email spec.
Frank, No problem. :) We'd still like to look into this at some point- moving the priority down to P5. Thanks, Kristen
I spoke to our email specialist, and we looked a bit in the RFC (RFC822, if you're interested). It's not completely clear from the RFC whether "empty" cc: lines are permitted, but common practice is for mail clients to accept these (I send them out a lot, and and have never heard anyone comment on it). I would recommend submitting an issue with the StarOffice folks. Thanks for submitting this, though- it was an interesting investigation! :)
I deny myself from submitting an issue for SO 5.2 - everytime I say "I want the mail/news client back" here inhouse (we dropped it for 6.0), I very tight evade beeing shot for this :) (fs@openoffice.org is an alias for frank.schoenheit@sun.com :)) closing this issue ....