Sender missing for domainless From: header after upgrade to 1.7.3

Author: rejahnCreated Aug 4, 2026Updated Sep 5, 2026
LabelsbugC: MIME parsing

Prerequisites

  • I have searched for duplicate or closed issues
  • I can recreate the issue with all plugins disabled

Describe the issue

After upgrading Roundcube from v1.6.17 to v1.7.3, some locally generated system messages no longer show a sender in the message list.

The affected messages contain a domainless From: header, for example:

From: foo
To: [email protected]
Subject: Test

Example:

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other e-mail clients, such as Thunderbird, are able to show those:

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What browser(s) are you seeing the problem on?

Chrome, Firefox

What version of PHP are you using?

8.4

What version of Roundcube are you using?

v1.7.2

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