[GERONIMO-5022] Sending mails fail with german umlauts (ä, ö, ü, ß) in description (not in emailaddress itself) e.g. "Müste Mö <[e-mail]>"

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.1.4
• Component/s: mail
• Security Level: public (Regular issues)

Environment

Windows XP
IBM SDK 1.6 SR5

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ashok Poralu
• Created: 12/Jan/10 11:23
• Updated: 15/Jan/10 06:39
• Resolved: 15/Jan/10 06:39

Description

Sending mails fail with german umlauts (ä, ö, ü, ß) in description (not in emailaddress itself) e.g. "Müste Mö <[e-mail]>". Sending mails without german umlauts (ä, ö, ü, ß) works, e. g, "Muste Mo <[e-mail]>".

Below the exception
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2010-01-12 15:24:12,156 ERROR [[jsp]] Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception
javax.mail.internet.AddressException: Illegal character in address (Maxü Müstermann <[e-mail]>,3)
at javax.mail.internet.AddressParser.syntaxError(AddressParser.java:1114)
at javax.mail.internet.AddressParser.tokenizeAddress(AddressParser.java:735)
at javax.mail.internet.AddressParser.parseAddress(AddressParser.java:113)
at javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress.<init>(InternetAddress.java:78)
at javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress.<init>(InternetAddress.java:69)
at org.apache.jsp.index_jsp._jspService(index_jsp.java:100)
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:806)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:369)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:342)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:267)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:806)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
at org.apache.geronimo.tomcat.valve.DefaultSubjectValve.invoke(DefaultSubjectValve.java:56)
at org.apache.geronimo.tomcat.GeronimoStandardContext$SystemMethodValve.invoke(GeronimoStandardContext.java:406)
at org.apache.geronimo.tomcat.valve.GeronimoBeforeAfterValve.invoke(GeronimoBeforeAfterValve.java:47)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:128)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:568)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:286)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:845)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:583)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:447)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:735)