Comment 165 for bug 369150

(In reply to comment #0)
> When an email contains a "From:" line encoded with RFC 2047 which contains
> characters which should, per RFC (2)822, be quoted (because it contains commas
> (",") or similar characters), Mozilla doesn't decode it properly and thinks
> these are two addresses.

Verifying this has been fixed. I am seeing correct behavior in
 Gecko/20081207 Shredder/3.0b2pre
(Find it here:
  ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/nightly/latest-comm-central/
)

The name is correctly shown in the Recipient column, and replying to the message constructs the name as expected in the addressing widget of the compose window -- except, the name is quoted, as in...

> The reverse is also true. It quotes an email address which contains a comma
> and then apply RFC 2047 (which it shouldn't do).

The quotes aren't necessary for the MIME encoding, but I think they may be necessary for the addressing widget to parse correctly. If you simply type a comma-separated name into the field without the quotes, the widget automatically splits it into two separate addresses. If the addition of quotes is still a problem, that should go into a new bug -- if not every dupe to this bug is about the first problem, I bet 98% of them are.

Thanks very much, Martin and David.