Re: problem with internationalized headers in email package



+ An 'encoded-word' MUST NOT appear in any portion of an 'addr-spec'.
+ An 'encoded-word' MUST NOT appear within a 'quoted-string'.
+ An 'encoded-word' MUST NOT be used in a Received header field.
+ An 'encoded-word' MUST NOT be used in parameter of a MIME
Content-Type or Content-Disposition field, or in any structured
field body except within a 'comment' or 'phrase'.


However (Python 2.5.2):

h = Header(u'Andrè <andre@localhost>')
h.encode()
'=?utf-8?b?QW5kcsOoIDxhbmRyZUBsb2NhbGhvc3Q+?='


I'm not sure if this can be considered a bug, but surely this is an
invalid header.

Which of the conditions do you consider validated? It seems to me that
this would make a completely correct Subject header, for example.

Regards,
Martin
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