smptlib did not handle empty addresses.

The problem was that it expected rfc822.parseaddr() to return None
upon a parse failure.  The actual, documented return value for a
parse failure is (None, None).

Closes SF bug 602029.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/smtplib.py b/Lib/smtplib.py
index a6f113c..066fd9c 100755
--- a/Lib/smtplib.py
+++ b/Lib/smtplib.py
@@ -168,14 +168,14 @@ def quoteaddr(addr):
 
     Should be able to handle anything rfc822.parseaddr can handle.
     """
-    m=None
+    m = (None, None)
     try:
         m=rfc822.parseaddr(addr)[1]
     except AttributeError:
         pass
-    if not m:
+    if m == (None, None): # Indicates parse failure or AttributeError
         #something weird here.. punt -ddm
-        return addr
+        return "<%s>" % addr
     else:
         return "<%s>" % m