#9286: Fix the rfc822 parser to preserve whitespace in address local part.

Such addresses are not RFC compliant except under the 'obsolete syntax'
rules, but before this fix the whitespace was dropped from the input,
concatenating the pieces.  That breaks one of the principles of the
email package, that of preserving the input as much as possible.
It also denies the application program the opportunity to apply its
own heuristics to interpretation of such non-compliant addresses.

It is possible users of the email package were depending on the local
part always being a single token, so this fix will not be backported.

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/email/_parseaddr.py b/Lib/email/_parseaddr.py
index 3bd4ba4403..699d418b3f 100644
--- a/Lib/email/_parseaddr.py
+++ b/Lib/email/_parseaddr.py
@@ -199,14 +199,18 @@ class AddrlistClass:
         self.commentlist = []
 
     def gotonext(self):
-        """Parse up to the start of the next address."""
+        """Skip white space and extract comments."""
+        wslist = []
         while self.pos < len(self.field):
             if self.field[self.pos] in self.LWS + '\n\r':
+                if self.field[self.pos] not in '\n\r':
+                    wslist.append(self.field[self.pos])
                 self.pos += 1
             elif self.field[self.pos] == '(':
                 self.commentlist.append(self.getcomment())
             else:
                 break
+        return EMPTYSTRING.join(wslist)
 
     def getaddrlist(self):
         """Parse all addresses.
@@ -319,16 +323,24 @@ class AddrlistClass:
 
         self.gotonext()
         while self.pos < len(self.field):
+            preserve_ws = True
             if self.field[self.pos] == '.':
+                if aslist and not aslist[-1].strip():
+                    aslist.pop()
                 aslist.append('.')
                 self.pos += 1
+                preserve_ws = False
             elif self.field[self.pos] == '"':
                 aslist.append('"%s"' % quote(self.getquote()))
             elif self.field[self.pos] in self.atomends:
+                if aslist and not aslist[-1].strip():
+                    aslist.pop()
                 break
             else:
                 aslist.append(self.getatom())
-            self.gotonext()
+            ws = self.gotonext()
+            if preserve_ws and ws:
+                aslist.append(ws)
 
         if self.pos >= len(self.field) or self.field[self.pos] != '@':
             return EMPTYSTRING.join(aslist)