Re: [Evolution-hackers] Bug #50046.

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

I still don't see what your issue is here.  We just don't display it, it
isn't lost.  Just like we don't display comments in addresses either.


On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 14:15 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 09:08 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > I don't think it is even supported by rfc2822 anymore anyway, is it? I
> > seem to recall seeing that it was a deprecated syntax.
> 
> §3.4 makes no mention of it being deprecated...
> 
> group           =       display-name ":" [mailbox-list / CFWS] ";"
>                         [CFWS]
> 
> It goes on to explicitly describe the usage which I'm used to....
> 
>    When it is desirable to treat several mailboxes as a single unit
>    (i.e., in a distribution list), the group construct can be used.  The
>    group construct allows the sender to indicate a named group of
>    recipients. This is done by giving a display name for the group,
>    followed by a colon, followed by a comma separated list of any number
>    of mailboxes (including zero and one), and ending with a semicolon.
>    Because the list of mailboxes can be empty, using the group construct
>    is also a simple way to communicate to recipients that the message
>    was sent to one or more named sets of recipients, without actually
>    providing the individual mailbox address for each of those
>    recipients.
> 
> 
> -- 
> dwmw2