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  r85179 | r.david.murray | 2010-10-02 11:58:26 -0400 (Sat, 02 Oct 2010) | 6 lines

  #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.
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diff --git a/Lib/email/test/test_email.py b/Lib/email/test/test_email.py
index 42a2ee3..e8dfbbc 100644
--- a/Lib/email/test/test_email.py
+++ b/Lib/email/test/test_email.py
@@ -2283,6 +2283,24 @@
         # 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