Tmail talk - Nov 2008 - TMail fails to parse bad email address in email but succeeds on TMail::Address.parse

Hi all,

I submitted the following as a bug on RubyForge[1] but was wondering
if anyone knows a workaround in the interim?

We just came across this in an internal application that uses TMail to
parse email.  Is the following expected behaviour?

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

bad_address = ''Foo... <foo at example.com>''

test_email = <<MAIL
From: #{bad_address}
To: "Good Address" <good at example.com>
Subject: A Subject line

Here''s a mail body.  Lovely.

MAIL

mail = TMail::Mail.parse(test_email)
p mail.from
p TMail::Address.parse(bad_address).to_s
p TMail::Address.parse(bad_address).spec


output:

nil
"\"Foo...\" <foo at example.com>"
"foo at example.com"

We''re using TMail bundled inside Rails (2.1.2) and version.rb is 1.2.3
 Further investigation has found that any address name ending in a
period will trigger this bug.

Cheers,

Paul.

[1] -
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=22771&group_id=4512&atid=17370

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Paul Wright <tmail-talk at
wrighty.com>wrote:
> We''re using TMail bundled inside Rails (2.1.2) and version.rb is
1.2.3
>  Further investigation has found that any address name ending in a
> period will trigger this bug.

Yes, this was a known bug.  Any address name that ends in a period will
fail.  However, this has been fixed in the latest trunk version of TMail.

You can grab it with:

svn co svn+ssh://mikel at rubyforge.org/var/svn/tmail/trunk trunk

And copy over the lib/tmail/address.rb file into your rails app.  It should
work fine.

By the way, the following tests pass in Trunk:

  def test_dot_in_address()

    validate_case__address\
    %Q(Minero A. <aamine at loveruby.net>),
        :name         => "Minero A.",
        :display_name => "Minero A.",
        :address      => %Q(aamine at loveruby.net),
        :comments     => nil,
        :domain       => ''loveruby.net'',
        :local        => %Q(aamine),
        :format       => %Q("me at my_place" <aamine at
loveruby.net>)

    validate_case__address\
    %Q(mikel . <mikel at lindsaar.net>),
        :name         => "mikel .",
        :display_name => "mikel .",
        :address      => %Q(mikel at lindsaar.net),
        :comments     => nil,
        :domain       => ''lindsaar.net'',
        :local        => %Q(mikel),
        :format       => %Q("mikel ." <mikel at
lindsaar.net>)

    validate_case__address\
    %Q("mikel ." <mikel at lindsaar.net>),
        :name         => "mikel .",
        :display_name => "mikel .",
        :address      => %Q(mikel at lindsaar.net),
        :comments     => nil,
        :domain       => ''lindsaar.net'',
        :local        => %Q(mikel),
        :format       => %Q("mikel ." <mikel at
lindsaar.net>)

    validate_case__address\
    %Q(mikel "." <mikel at lindsaar.net>),
        :name         => %Q(mikel .),
        :display_name => %Q(mikel .),
        :address      => %Q(mikel at lindsaar.net),
        :comments     => nil,
        :domain       => ''lindsaar.net'',
        :local        => %Q(mikel),
        :format       => %Q(mikel "." <mikel at
lindsaar.net>)

  end



-- 
http://lindsaar.net/
Rails, RSpec and Life blog....
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL:
<http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/tmail-talk/attachments/20081117/fb117e2d/attachment-0001.html>

OK....

Hold that thought... just found a bug which will stop this working.

I am fixing it now.

Mikel
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL:
<http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/tmail-talk/attachments/20081117/bcde64d2/attachment.html>