[Mimedefang] Email addresses in HTML text

[Mickey Hill]

Hi all,

Email addresses in the form <user at company.com> that are sent to
append_html_boilerplate() are added as-is, and my mail client (and most
others, I assume) interpret these as unknown HTML tags, and ignores them.

So, instead of "For more information about your site's MIMEDefang policy,
contact Postmaster <postmaster at company.com>.", I get "contact Postmaster .".

Here's one solution.  Take anything matching <*@*> and convert to
<*@*>.  There's no valid HTML tag containing the @ symbol, is there?

Is this too much of a hack, or is this a general enough case that this is a
good way to fix it?

--- mimedefang.pl.orig  Mon Mar  3 13:32:26 2003
+++ mimedefang.pl       Tue Mar  4 09:04:10 2003
@@ -3923,6 +3923,8 @@
 #***********************************************************************
 sub append_html_boilerplate ($$$) {
     my($msg, $boilerplate, $all) = @_;
+    # Reformat greater-than and less-than in email addresses
+    $boilerplate =~ s/<(.+)@(.+)>/<$1\@$2>/g;
     my($part);
     if (!$all) {
        $part = find_part($msg, "text/html");

_________________________
Mickey Hill
Rudolph's Inc
2021 Rob Mason Rd
PO Box 69
Murray KY 42071 USA
Phone (270) 753-0686 x124
      (800) 231-2295
Fax   (270) 753-4230
mickey at rudolphtire.com
www.rudolphtire.com