Use shlex.split() to parse control lines in be-handle-mail.

Split arguments following POSIX rather than at all whitespace.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/interfaces/email/interactive/be-handle-mail b/interfaces/email/interactive/be-handle-mail
index d1c9451..f457b6a 100755
--- a/interfaces/email/interactive/be-handle-mail
+++ b/interfaces/email/interactive/be-handle-mail
@@ -42,17 +42,19 @@ import cStringIO as StringIO
 import email
 from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
 import email.utils
-import libbe.cmdutil, libbe.encoding, libbe.utility
 import os
 import os.path
 import re
-import send_pgp_mime
+import shlex
 import sys
 import time
 import traceback
 import doctest
 import unittest
 
+import libbe.cmdutil, libbe.encoding, libbe.utility
+import send_pgp_mime
+
 HANDLER_ADDRESS = u"BE Bugs <wking@thor.physics.drexel.edu>"
 _THIS_DIR = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
 BE_DIR = _THIS_DIR
@@ -452,7 +454,7 @@ class Message (object):
                     continue
                 if line.startswith(BREAK):
                     break
-                fields = line.split()
+                fields = shlex.split(line)
                 command,args = (fields[0], fields[1:])
                 commands.append(Command(self, command, args))
             if len(commands) == 0: