Opened 14 years ago

Closed 14 years ago

#16166 closed Bug (fixed)

EmailField? does not comply with SMTP standard

Reported by: qqq1one@… Owned by: nobody
Component: Core (Mail) Version: dev
Severity: Normal Keywords: EmailField SMTP compliance
Cc: Triage Stage: Ready for checkin
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

Email addresses in the literal form (where the square brackets are included):

user@[123.123.123.123]

are indicated as invalid by EmailField.

But the literal form is valid as per section 4.1.3 of the SMTP standard:

Sometimes a host is not known to the domain name system and
communication (and, in particular, communication to report and repair
the error) is blocked. To bypass this barrier a special literal form
of the address is allowed as an alternative to a domain name. For
IPv4 addresses, this form uses four small decimal integers separated
by dots and enclosed by brackets such as [123.255.37.2], which
indicates an (IPv4) Internet Address in sequence-of-octets form.

Reference: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2821#section-4.1.3

Also referred to in http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1123#page-57:

5.2.17 Domain Literals: RFC-822 Section 6.2.3

A mailer MUST be able to accept and parse an Internet domain
literal whose content ("dtext"; see RFC-822) is a dotted-
decimal host address. This satisfies the requirement of
Section 2.1 for the case of mail.

An SMTP MUST accept and recognize a domain literal for any of
its own IP addresses.

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ticket_16166_for_r16342.diff (1.6 KB ) - added by samufuentes 14 years ago.

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Change History (5)

comment:1 by Stephen Burrows, 14 years ago

Component: UncategorizedCore (Mail)
Needs tests: set
Triage Stage: UnreviewedAccepted
Version: 1.3SVN

by samufuentes, 14 years ago

comment:2 by samufuentes, 14 years ago

Has patch: set
Needs tests: unset
UI/UX: unset

comment:3 by trez, 14 years ago

Triage Stage: AcceptedReady for checkin

Tests are ok.

comment:4 by Luke Plant, 14 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

In [16355]:

Fixed #16166 - EmailField does not comply with SMTP standard

Thanks to qqq1one@… for the report, and samufuentes for the patch.

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