Re: [Evolution] Problem replying to all

[Dick Roth <raroth7 attbi com>]

I want to thank both Guenther and Eric.  I'll check the setup of
Netscape at the office tomorrow, but I'll wager that you are correct
about the automatic appending of the domain.  I wish that I could help
coding for this project, but, alas, my only claim of skill is to
appreciate Evo as a terrific tool for the GNU/Linux desktop with a
supporting community that is as essential to its success as its
visionary publisher.

Dick

On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 21:31, Eric Lambart wrote:
> To (hopefully?) make what Guenther said a little more clear, Netscape
> and Mozilla (and most of the many other mailers I've used) allow you to
> set the default domain for "naked" addresses (like "ban" or "fischetti"
> or whatever) to something like "mycompanydomain.com".
>
> Evolution does many wonderful things, but it not do this.  Evolution
> doesn't have any concept of a "default domain", and so it just tells
> your mail server to send mail to "ban", and apparently your mail server
> also doesn't append a default domain name to the address.
>
> In the real world, of course, "ban" is an invalid address, because it
> lacks a domain name.  I actually thought Evolution validated e-mail
> addresses, so it would recognize that "ban" alone is an invalid
> address.  But I just tested it, and indeed it does not.  I swear it used
> to...
>
> So, until Evolution supports a default domain setting (I wouldn't hold
> your breath), if you really need to send mail to "naked" addresses, the
> only thing I can think of to do is add a nickname for them to your
> Contact list.
>
> For example, if you have Gerald Banner in your contact list, go to the
> "Details" tab of his contact record, and you will find a Nickname
> field.  Set this nickname to "ban", and any mail sent to "ban" will go
> to the proper address (assuming you have set "ban mydomain com" as the
> Primary Email address for Mr. Banner).
>
> I realize this may be a pain in the butt if you have hundreds of
> possible names, with new ones being added and old ones being taken away,
> but that's the way it goes for now unless you want to contribute the
> code for default domain support to Evolution.
>
> HTH
> Eric
>
> On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 16:26, Dick Roth wrote:
> > The question then becomes:  where does this get truncated?  When the
> > identical original email is "replied to all" via Netscape 7.xx, it sails
> > though the post office with no trouble.  Could there be a limit to the
> > length of the recipients list?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dick
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 10:35, Dan Winship wrote:
> > > from the bounce:
> > >
> > > > ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > > > 553 5.0.0 "BANNER GERALD P." <ban... Unbalanced '<'
> > >
> > > and then in the message body:
> > >
> > > > Cc: Joe Fischetti <fischetti mycompanydomain>, Paul Conroy
> > > > <conroy mycompanydomain>, "O'SHEA DANIEL F." <oshea mycompanydomain>,
> > > > "ALUSOW NANCY J." <nalusow mycompanydomain>, "PAYNE DANIEL J."
> > > > <payne mycompanydomain>, "STOKES GRANT H." <stokes mycompanydomain>,
> > > > "BANNER GERALD P." <ban>
> > >
> > > Note the address at the end. It's missing the "@domain" part.
> > >
> > > -- Dan