Hi Geoffrey, That looks like the content of a "mailto:"; URL. If you click on one in a browser window, Balsa should parse it and set up a compose window with recipient everything up to the first '?', and the subject and body set up as given (with the "%xx" triples properly decode, I believe). Similarly, if Balsa is started at the command line with balsa -m "mailto:customer..."; the initial compose window should be set up appropriately. But if you copy and paste everything after "mailto:"; into the "To:" field, it's passed as is to GMime, which treats it as a comma-separated list of addresses, and passes back to Balsa a corresponding list of individual addresses, in this case just one. I'm not sure where to find the definition of the syntax that this address violates--RFC 5322, perhaps. I suppose Balsa could verify compliance, and try to guess what's wrong when it fails. Thoughts, anyone? Best, Peter On 01/08/2014 12:20:34 AM Wed, 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? _______________________________________________ balsa-list mailing list balsa-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/balsa-list
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