#1050268: make parseaddr 'quote' the contents of quoted strings in addresses.
Also made the doc string for email._parseaddr's 'quote' function more
accurate; I'd love to make the function match the old docstring instead,
but other code uses it according the existing semantics.
diff --git a/Lib/email/test/test_email.py b/Lib/email/test/test_email.py
index b6e4831..8f95125 100644
--- a/Lib/email/test/test_email.py
+++ b/Lib/email/test/test_email.py
@@ -2287,6 +2287,24 @@
# formataddr() quotes the name if there's a dot in it
self.assertEqual(utils.formataddr((a, b)), y)
+ def test_parseaddr_preserves_quoted_pairs_in_addresses(self):
+ # issue 10005. Note that in the third test the second pair of
+ # backslashes is not actually a quoted pair because it is not inside a
+ # comment or quoted string: the address being parsed has a quoted
+ # string containing a quoted backslash, followed by 'example' and two
+ # backslashes, followed by another quoted string containing a space and
+ # the word 'example'. parseaddr copies those two backslashes
+ # literally. Per rfc5322 this is not technically correct since a \ may
+ # not appear in an address outside of a quoted string. It is probably
+ # a sensible Postel interpretation, though.
+ eq = self.assertEqual
+ eq(utils.parseaddr('""example" example"@example.com'),
+ ('', '""example" example"@example.com'))
+ eq(utils.parseaddr('"\\"example\\" example"@example.com'),
+ ('', '"\\"example\\" example"@example.com'))
+ eq(utils.parseaddr('"\\\\"example\\\\" example"@example.com'),
+ ('', '"\\\\"example\\\\" example"@example.com'))
+
def test_multiline_from_comment(self):
x = """\
Foo