Email does not comply with addr-spec of RFC 2822

[petrus9]

When adding the following Name Lastname email@domain.com to the default "to" or "from" I get the following error.

Symfony \ Component \ Mime \ Exception \ RfcComplianceException
Email "Name lastname <email@domain.com>" does not comply with addr-spec of RFC 2822. But as far as I am concerned it does comply.

Here is my markdown for the contact form
contact.md

[petrus9]

This is how it actually shows up in the error screen:

[rhukster]

If this provided contact.md is using the same configuration file from you other issue, there was no value for {{ config.plugins.email.from }} nor {{ config.plugins.email.to }}. These were both empty. These need to be provided i a valid email format: https://github.com/getgrav/grav-plugin-email?tab=readme-ov-file#specifying-email-addresses

You said you use "Name lastname <email@domain.com)>" so I tested with:

process:
    email:
        subject: "[Site Contact Form] {{ form.value.name|e }}"
        from: "Name lastname <email@domain.com>"
        to: "Name lastname <email@domain.com>"
...

And it worked totally 100% fine. Even without the quotes its fine:

process:
    email:
        subject: "[Site Contact Form] {{ form.value.name|e }}"
        from: Name lastname <email@domain.com>
        to: Name lastname <email@domain.com>

FYI, you should always include a reply_to: so when you receive an email from the contact form, you can click 'reply' and it will go to the user who entered the form data on your site. Something like:

reply_to: {mail:"{{ form.value.email }}", name:"{{ form.value.name|e }}"}

is the best solution assuming your form has a field for email and for name.

[petrus9]

Thanks for the reply_to tip. I implemented it and it works!

Here is my new email.yaml

enabled: true
from: 'John Doe <john@johndoe.com>'
to: 'Jane Doe <jane@janedoe.com>'
mailer:
  engine: sendgrid
  smtp:
    server: localhost
    port: 25
    encryption: none
    user: null
    password: null
  sendmail:
    bin: '/usr/sbin/sendmail -bs'
content_type: text/html
debug: false
cc: null
bcc: null
reply_to: null
body: null

Which throws the RFC error

Here is my contact.md which I know does not have any lines for "name:" not sure what I need to fix here so that emails are sent to 'Jane Doe jane@janedoe.com' and come from 'John Doe john@johndoe.com'

title: Contact
heading: 'Say Hello.'
form:
    action: /home
    name: contact-form
    fields:
        -
            name: name
            label: Name
            placeholder: Name
            type: text
            validate:
                required: true
        -
            name: email
            label: Email
            placeholder: Email
            type: email
            validate:
                required: true
        -
            name: message
            label: Message
            placeholder: Message
            type: textarea
            rows: 6
            validate:
                required: true
        -
            name: g-recaptcha-response
            label: Captcha
            type: captcha
            recaptcha_not_validated: 'Captcha not valid!'
    buttons:
        -
            type: submit
            value: 'Send Message'
    process:
        -
            captcha: true
            buttons: null
        -
            type: submit
            value: 'Send Message'
            process: null
        -
            email:
                from:
                    mail: '{{ config.plugins.email.from }}'
                to:
                    mail: '{{ config.plugins.email.to }}'
                reply_to:
                    mail: '{{ form.value.email }}'
                    name: '{{ form.value.name|e }}'
                subject: '[Contact] Message from {{ form.value.name|e }}'
                body: '{% include ''forms/data.html.twig'' %}'
        -
            save:
                fileprefix: contact-
                dateformat: Ymd-His-u
                extension: txt
                body: '{% include ''forms/data.txt.twig'' %}'
        -
            display: thank-you

[rhukster]

OH, change your email process: email: section to:

-
            email:
                from: '{{ config.plugins.email.from }}'
                to: '{{ config.plugins.email.to }}'
                reply_to:
                    mail: '{{ form.value.email }}'
                    name: '{{ form.value.name|e }}'
                subject: '[Contact] Message from {{ form.value.name|e }}'
                body: '{% include ''forms/data.html.twig'' %}'

You were setting the 'email' only part (mail:) with the combined email + name. Just set to: and from: and you should be fine.

[petrus9]

when I change the process: email: section to your recommendation. I get:

Symfony\Component\Mime\Exception\RfcComplianceException thrown with message "Email "Jane Doe <jane@janedoe.com>" does not comply with addr-spec of RFC 2822."

I am assuming I have to add some kind of name field, right?

I am following the the formating given in the email plugin interface:

[rhukster]

So you have quotes around it? Try removing. Maybe they are not regular quotes.

[petrus9]

So you have quotes around it? Try removing. Maybe they are not regular quotes.

No quotes

[rhukster]

I’m at a loss 🤷‍♂️

works for me when I try.

[petrus9]

The way it shows up on my screen is like this:

[rhukster]

Ya that’s weird. The escaping isn’t right. But I don’t even know how you could do that from a yaml configuration.

[petrus9]

The only way I get it to work is if my email.yaml looks like this:

enabled: true
from: 'john@johndoe.com'
to: 'jane@janedoe.com'
mailer:
  engine: sendgrid
  smtp:
    server: localhost
    port: 25
    encryption: none
    user: null
    password: null
  sendmail:
    bin: '/usr/sbin/sendmail -bs'
content_type: text/html
debug: false
cc: null
bcc: null
reply_to: null
body: null

[petrus9]

@rhukster so from what you wrote above, it sounds like when you add name and email address to the Email plugin fields like so:

Using:

email:
                from: '{{ config.plugins.email.from }}'
                to: '{{ config.plugins.email.to }}'
                reply_to:
                    mail: '{{ form.value.email }}'
                    name: '{{ form.value.name|e }}'
                subject: '[Contact] Message from {{ form.value.name|e }}'
                body: '{% include ''forms/data.html.twig'' %}'        

Your email is delivered coming from John Doe <john@johndoe.com> and is sent to Jane Doe ,<jane@janedoe.com> in full

in full name-addr format? is that what you mean by that you can't replicate this?

[Tredecate]

Just a heads up for anyone looking at this in the future, this exact issue was occurring for me when using the Landio theme's default form configuration. Here was the email plugin config I was using:

Details

enabled: true
from: 'Website <▬▬@▬▬▬▬.ca>'
to: ▬▬@▬▬▬▬.ca
mailer:
  engine: smtp
  smtp:
    server: smtp-relay.gmail.com
    port: 25
    encryption: tls
    user: ▬▬@▬▬▬▬.ca
    password: '▬'
  sendmail:
    bin: /usr/sbin/sendmail
content_type: text/plain
debug: false
cc: null
bcc: null
reply_to: ▬▬@▬▬▬▬.ca
body: null

When trying to define an email address in the format Firstname Lastname <name@domain.tld>, the angle brackets were being escaped to < and >

In the aforementioned form (defined in modular.md), the email process is defined as such:

email:
    from: '{{ config.plugins.email.from }}'
    to:
        - '{{ config.plugins.email.from }}'
    subject: '[Contact Request] {{ form.value.name|e }}'
    body: '{% include ''forms/data.html.twig'' %}'

It's great that it grabs the values from the plugin config, BUT... In this scenario, the Markdown content was being rendered as escaped HTML 🙂

My solution was to add |raw, like so:

email:
    from: '{{ config.plugins.email.from|raw }}'
    to:
        - '{{ config.plugins.email.from|raw }}'
    subject: '[Contact Request] {{ form.value.name|e }}'
    body: '{% include ''forms/data.html.twig'' %}'

And it works! It should be noted that there can be some degree of risk involved in passing through raw data, so maybe don't use this solution for user/public-input.