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-rw-r--r--alot/db/utils.py5
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diff --git a/alot/db/utils.py b/alot/db/utils.py
index bea7b0c6..5250577c 100644
--- a/alot/db/utils.py
+++ b/alot/db/utils.py
@@ -357,7 +357,10 @@ def decode_header(header, normalize=False):
# some mailers send out incorrectly escaped headers
# and double quote the escaped realname part again. remove those
- value = re.sub(r'\"(.*?=\?.*?.*?)\"', r'\1', value)
+ # RFC: 2047
+ regex = r'"(=\?.+?\?.+?\?[^ ?]+\?=)"'
+ value = re.sub(regex, r'\1', value)
+ logging.debug("unquoted header: |%s|", value)
# otherwise we interpret RFC2822 encoding escape sequences
valuelist = email.header.decode_header(value)