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[jira] Created: (GERONIMO-5842) InternetAddress.parse fails on a valid address

InternetAddress.parse fails on a valid address
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                 Key: GERONIMO-5842
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-5842
             Project: Geronimo
          Issue Type: Bug
      Security Level: public (Regular issues)
          Components: mail
            Reporter: Dain Sundstrom


The InternetAddress parser is restricting the local part to not have multiple dots in a row.  Although this may be rfc822 compliant, email address on the internet can and do have multiple dot in the local part.  For example the email address "k..allen@enron.com" was an address at Enron and is included in the Enron email corpus:
 
InternetAddress.parse("k..allen@enron.com");

Exception in thread "main" javax.mail.internet.AddressException: Invalid local part (k..allen@enron.com,2)
	at javax.mail.internet.AddressParser.illegalAddress(AddressParser.java:1126)
	at javax.mail.internet.AddressParser.validateLocalPart(AddressParser.java:1287)
	at javax.mail.internet.AddressParser.validateAddressSpec(AddressParser.java:1232)
	at javax.mail.internet.AddressParser.validateSimpleAddress(AddressParser.java:1213)
	at javax.mail.internet.AddressParser.parseSingleAddress(AddressParser.java:440)
	at javax.mail.internet.AddressParser.parseAddressList(AddressParser.java:91)
	at javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress.parse(InternetAddress.java:557)
	at javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress.parse(InternetAddress.java:529)
	at javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress.parse(InternetAddress.java:517)



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[jira] Updated: (GERONIMO-5842) InternetAddress.parse fails on a valid address

Posted by "Forrest Xia (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>.
     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-5842?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Forrest Xia updated GERONIMO-5842:
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             Priority: Minor  (was: Major)
    Affects Version/s: 3.0
               Labels: javamail  (was: )

> InternetAddress.parse fails on a valid address
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>
>                 Key: GERONIMO-5842
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-5842
>             Project: Geronimo
>          Issue Type: Bug
>      Security Level: public(Regular issues) 
>          Components: mail
>    Affects Versions: 3.0
>            Reporter: Dain Sundstrom
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: javamail
>
> The InternetAddress parser is restricting the local part to not have multiple dots in a row.  Although this may be rfc822 compliant, email address on the internet can and do have multiple dot in the local part.  For example the email address "k..allen@enron.com" was an address at Enron and is included in the Enron email corpus:
>  
> InternetAddress.parse("k..allen@enron.com");
> Exception in thread "main" javax.mail.internet.AddressException: Invalid local part (k..allen@enron.com,2)
> 	at javax.mail.internet.AddressParser.illegalAddress(AddressParser.java:1126)
> 	at javax.mail.internet.AddressParser.validateLocalPart(AddressParser.java:1287)
> 	at javax.mail.internet.AddressParser.validateAddressSpec(AddressParser.java:1232)
> 	at javax.mail.internet.AddressParser.validateSimpleAddress(AddressParser.java:1213)
> 	at javax.mail.internet.AddressParser.parseSingleAddress(AddressParser.java:440)
> 	at javax.mail.internet.AddressParser.parseAddressList(AddressParser.java:91)
> 	at javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress.parse(InternetAddress.java:557)
> 	at javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress.parse(InternetAddress.java:529)
> 	at javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress.parse(InternetAddress.java:517)

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