sendmail allow "=" symbol in recipient, closes 10241

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mailutils/sendmail.c b/mailutils/sendmail.c
index defbd9552..4ca91fad8 100644
--- a/mailutils/sendmail.c
+++ b/mailutils/sendmail.c
@@ -150,7 +150,13 @@ static char *sane_address(char *str)
 	trim(str);
 	s = str;
 	while (*s) {
-		if (!isalnum(*s) && !strchr("+_-.@", *s)) {
+		/* Standard allows these chars in username without quoting:
+		 * /!#$%&'*+-=?^_`{|}~
+		 * and allows dot (.) with some restrictions.
+		 * I chose to only allow a saner subset.
+		 * I propose to expand it only on user's request.
+		 */
+		if (!isalnum(*s) && !strchr("=+_-.@", *s)) {
 			bb_error_msg("bad address '%s'", str);
 			/* returning "": */
 			str[0] = '\0';