Re: Curious address

[Jack <ostroffjh sbcglobal net>]

On 2014.01.08 00:20, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> Here's the beginning of an email address that was given by a site:
>
> customercare259 ikea 
> com?subject=General%20Question&body=In%20order%20for%20us%20to%20better%20serve%20you%20please%20include%20the%20following%20information
>
> The mail was rejected: error 501 - recpt syntax error.  Perhaps not  
> surprising.
>
> So - who's at fault? The website for generating the address with the  
> trailing junk, or Balsa for not translating the junk into something  
> presentable? Or me for not editing the address - to what?

My best guess is that it's up to the browser to translate a mailto://  
link into the proper call to the mail client.  I can't find it now, but  
Firefox (or was it some underlying library?) has a way to configure it,  
along with the way to select which email client to use.  I know for a  
long time, I was able to get it to call Balsa, but not handle (i.e.,  
just drop) the ?subject= part.  I finally managed to configure that,  
but I don't think I've ever seen a ?body= in such a link.

Bottom line - that extra stuff is not part of the address at all, but  
part of the mailto:// link.  It might be nice if Balsa could parse it,  
but I'd consider that a wishlist enhancement, not a bug that it doesn't  
do it now.

Jack