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minaevmike opened this issue Sep 25, 2017 · 5 comments
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proposal: net/mail: parse group address #22014

minaevmike opened this issue Sep 25, 2017 · 5 comments

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@minaevmike
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I want to add support for parsing group email addresses as defined in rfc5322(https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5322.txt).

   address         =   mailbox / group
   mailbox         =   name-addr / addr-spec
   name-addr       =   [display-name] angle-addr
   angle-addr      =   [CFWS] "<" addr-spec ">" [CFWS] / obs-angle-addr
   group           =   display-name ":" [group-list] ";" [CFWS]
   display-name    =   phrase
   mailbox-list    =   (mailbox *("," mailbox)) / obs-mbox-list
   address-list    =   (address *("," address)) / obs-addr-list
   group-list      =   mailbox-list / CFWS / obs-group-list

First of all I would like to discuss the changes. Current strucutre of address is

type Address struct {
        Name    string // Proper name; may be empty.
        Address string // user@domain
}

These are possible implementations:

  1. Ignore groups at all; group-list is resolved into mailbost-list. But I have no idea how to handle group address in mail.ParseAddress because it returns single Address struct.

  2. Change Address struct into smth like:

type SingleAddress struct {
        Name    string // Proper name; may be empty.
        Address string // user@domain
}

type GroupAddress struct {
        Name string // group name
        Addresses []SingleAddress
}

type Address struct {
       SingleAddress
       IsGroup bool // true if address is group one
       GroupAddress GroupAddress
}

This implementation won't break backward compatibility, but Address struct becomes terrible.

  1. Add separate method for parsing group addresses.

So i would like to listen your thoughts about it.

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mvdan commented Sep 25, 2017

I assume this is different from ParseAddressList?

  1. Change ...

Not an option at the moment, as that would break the Go1 compatibility promise.

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mvdan commented Sep 25, 2017

This implementation won't break backward compatibility, but Address struct becomes terrible.

Sorry, I missed this bit. This still seems like a bad idea to me, too. And I would argue it would still break Go1, as the following would break:

_ = Address{Name: "Foo", Address: "foo@bar.com"}

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Does anybody actually use group addresses?

@minaevmike
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@ianlancetaylor yes, for example postfix be default set empty group list if there is no To header http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#undisclosed_recipients_header .
@mvdan yes it is different from ParseAddressList. ParseAddressList don't handle group https://play.golang.org/p/rhKTS4a2iG

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Change https://golang.org/cl/66250 mentions this issue: net/mail: parse group in email address

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