## Encode header parts that contain newlines
Per RFC 2047:
> [...] these encoding schemes allow the
> encoding of arbitrary octet values, mail readers that implement this
> decoding should also ensure that display of the decoded data on the
> recipient's terminal will not cause unwanted side-effects
It seems that the "quoted-word" scheme is a valid way to include
a newline character in a header value, just like we already allow
undecodable bytes or control characters.
They do need to be properly quoted when serialized to text, though.
## Verify that email headers are well-formed
This should fail for custom fold() implementations that aren't careful
about newlines.
Co-authored-by: Bas Bloemsaat <bas@bloemsaat.org>
Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>
* Fix for email.generator.Generator with whitespace between encoded words.
email.generator.Generator currently does not handle whitespace between
encoded words correctly when the encoded words span multiple lines. The
current generator will create an encoded word for each line. If the end
of the line happens to correspond with the end real word in the
plaintext, the generator will place an unencoded space at the start of
the subsequent lines to represent the whitespace between the plaintext
words.
A compliant decoder will strip all the whitespace from between two
encoded words which leads to missing spaces in the round-tripped
output.
The fix for this is to make sure that whitespace between two encoded
words ends up inside of one or the other of the encoded words. This
fix places the space inside of the second encoded word.
A second problem happens with continuation lines. A continuation line that
starts with whitespace and is followed by a non-encoded word is fine because
the newline between such continuation lines is defined as condensing to
a single space character. When the continuation line starts with whitespace
followed by an encoded word, however, the RFCs specify that the word is run
together with the encoded word on the previous line. This is because normal
words are filded on syntactic breaks by encoded words are not.
The solution to this is to add the whitespace to the start of the encoded word
on the continuation line.
Test cases are from #92081
* Rename a variable so it's not confused with the final variable.
Only treat '\n', '\r' and '\r\n' as line separators in re-folding the email
messages. Preserve control characters '\v', '\f', '\x1c', '\x1d' and '\x1e'
and Unicode line separators '\x85', '\u2028' and '\u2029' as is.
The original algorithm tried to delegate the folding to the tokens so
that those tokens whose folding rules differed could specify the
differences. However, this resulted in a lot of duplicated code because
most of the rules were the same.
The new algorithm moves all folding logic into a set of functions
external to the token classes, but puts the information about which
tokens can be folded in which ways on the tokens...with the exception of
mime-parameters, which are a special case (which was not even
implemented in the old folder).
This algorithm can still probably be improved and hopefully simplified
somewhat.
Note that some of the test expectations are changed. I believe the
changes are toward more desirable and consistent behavior: in general
when (re) folding a line the canonical version of the tokens is
generated, rather than preserving errors or extra whitespace.
This defaults to True in the compat32 policy for backward compatibility,
but to False for all new policies.
Patch by Milan Oberkirch, with a few tweaks.
This could use more edge case tests, but the basic functionality is tested.
(Note that this changeset does not add tailored support for the RFC 6532
message/global MIME type, but the email package generic facilities will handle
it.)
Reviewed by Maciej Szulik.
When the new policies are used (and only when the new policies are explicitly
used) headers turn into objects that have attributes based on their parsed
values, and can be set using objects that encapsulate the values, as well as
set directly from unicode strings. The folding algorithm then takes care of
encoding unicode where needed, and folding according to the highest level
syntactic objects.
With this patch only date and time headers are parsed as anything other than
unstructured, but that is all the helper methods in the existing API handle.
I do plan to add more parsers, and complete the set specified in the RFC
before the package becomes stable.
This patch primarily does two things: (1) it adds some internal-interface
methods to Policy that allow for Policy to control the parsing and folding of
headers in such a way that we can construct a backward compatibility policy
that is 100% compatible with the 3.2 API, while allowing a new policy to
implement the email6 API. (2) it adds that backward compatibility policy and
refactors the test suite so that the only differences between the 3.2
test_email.py file and the 3.3 test_email.py file is some small changes in
test framework and the addition of tests for bugs fixed that apply to the 3.2
API.
There are some additional teaks, such as moving just the code needed for the
compatibility policy into _policybase, so that the library code can import
only _policybase. That way the new code that will be added for email6
will only get imported when a non-compatibility policy is imported.
This new interface will also allow for future planned enhancements
in control over the parser/generator without requiring any additional
complexity in the parser/generator API.
Patch reviewed by Éric Araujo and Barry Warsaw.
Petr Viktorin