Re: [Evolution-hackers] Bug #50046.

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

it's an empty group. it's syntactically meaningless. it's like extra
whitespace between addresses... it's not needed.

Jeff

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 06:57, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 12:05 +0100, guenther wrote:
> > Sorry, my bad. Now I see. Although my understanding of your initial
> > explanation didn't change, not even with more coffee. ;)
> 
> :)
> 
> > Yep, I noticed the missing To: field myself. But it seems, this is due
> > to the formatting of that header:
> > 
> > To: People who needed an example of empty lists in To field:;People who needed an example of empty lists in To field: ;, ""@infradead.org
> 
> That happened between me and you, and it wasn't done by any of my boxen.
> I have this (I'm attaching the same message, but Evo might munge it even
> when it's attached):
> 
> pentafluge /home/dwmw2/Maildir/cur $ grep ^To: ./1073299527.H151846P27187.pentafluge.infradead.org:2,S
> To: People who needed an example of empty lists in To field: ;
> pentafluge /home/dwmw2/Maildir/cur $
> 
> ... leading to the To: header being completely omitted from the display.
> Perhaps if it had other addresses in it too then it wouldn't be
> completely removed, as NotZed says.
> 
> > However, I actually *have* seen the behavior in Evolution, as you want.
> > The message was generated by Eudora and the To: field had some
> > explanatory text, whereas all the addresses where not visible, cause
> > they where sent Bcc:ed.
> > 
> > So I assume, this is Evolutions fault parsing the To: header?
> 
> Evo seems to have parsed it just fine, but decided for some reason to
> discard part of it.
> 
> -- 
> dwmw2
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2 infradead org>
> Subject: Bcc and lists in To:
> Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 10:43:16 +0000
> 
> 
> By way of example... this message (sent from pine because Evo can't send 
> them like this) has a list in the To: field which explains why you're 
> getting this mail.
> 
> It says: 
> 	To: People who needed an example of empty lists in To field: ;
> 
> Evolution strips the To: header from the mail before sending it, and even 
> strips it on _displaying_ the mail. Unless you look at it in another MUA 
> you're unlikely to see it, even if you select 'View Mail Source'.