Error in Mail_mimeDecode and the disturbing number of open bugs
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From: "Daniel O'Connor" on 6 Jun 2010 05:54 Oh dear god, the horror! So many bugs... Alan/Cipri, do you think many of these are valid? Would Mail_mimeDecode benefit from having oodles of test cases written for said bugs, and patches if need be? On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday(a)crashcourse.ca>wrote: > A specific question, and a more general observation. Recently, I noticed > that the Mail_mimeDecode package was mis-parsing the recipients on the "To:" > list. Specifically, with email messages where the raw source contained the > To recipients in the multi-line format: > > To: address, address, > address, address, > address, address, > ... and more ... > address, address // final line, with no trailing comma > > the mime decode routine picked up *only* those addresses on the first > physical line and quite clearly never continued parsing the additional > recipients on the following lines. This is, IMHO, a *fatal* bug. It seems > unacceptable to simply miss that many recipients, unless there's an option > I've overlooked that would rectify that. > > On a more general note, I popped over to the Mail_mimeDecode bugs page > here: > > > http://pear.php.net/bugs/search.php?cmd=display&package_name%5B%5D=Mail_mimeDecode > > and was a bit disturbed to see the list of apparently "open" bugs, some of > which seem fairly serious. Is that list up to date? Because if there are > open bugs going back to 2004, it seems futile to submit entries for even > more. Can someone clarify what the point of that bugs page is? Thanks. > > rday > > > > -- > PEAR General Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > |