[kmail2] [Bug 360320] kMail 5 garbles original "To" header when bouncing a message

[Gunter Ohrner via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=360320

--- Comment #3 from Gunter Ohrner <kdebugs at CustomCDROM.de> ---
I'll start with a disclaimer:

The point is, I'm not even using these addresses, the bug described happens if
I just want to bounce a mail which *contains* such an address - I'm using a
totally plain new address as the bounce target. The mail that is being
forwarded gets garbled in the process.


How does it happen that such mail addresses get introduced into mails I
receive?

Good question. However, I see addresses formatted like this quite frequently. I
guess it's an unlucky combination of different MUAs which first cause an
address like 

   localpart at example.com <localpart at example.com>

to be generated from the pure address, and in later steps the "real name" part
gets quoted somehow.

Possibly also Akonadi address search - or possibly older versions thereof -
might come into play, as addresses like this are often suggested to my by
kMails address search. Then again, it might also be that Akonadi just extracted
these strangely formatted addresses as-is from existing mails.

In any case, I think the format - strange, as it is - is technically correct
and addresses like this ought to work, shouldn't they?

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