Re: [Evolution] Only 1 email adress possible in the TO: CC: AND BCC: fields? (Version 1.4.0)

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 09:40, Peter Stokes wrote:
> Hi All
>
>
> On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 14:31, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > > Since I changed from MS Outlook to Evolution, I continued to send emails
> > > to more than 1 person by separating the emial adresses with a semicolon
> > > (in the adress field). Only now I encountered, that only the first
> > > recipient was delivered. The receivers after the first ";" were ignored
> > > - and no error message was generated. This is ugly, as I thougt these
> > > people got my emails.
> > >
> > > Was this a bug and is it already solved. Is there any other separation
> > > allowed?
> >
> > Use a comma to separate them - a semi-colon is an Outlook thing.
>
> So what happens if I receive a mail from Outlook with a CC list
> separated with ';' and I reply-all?

You wont.

; is an interal outlook only thing.  It always has to be converted to ,
when it goes into the real world (mail via smtp/etc).

> Answer it only replies to the first in the list according to what I am
> reading here. Not good in my opinion especially if it does nothing to
> alert you to the problem. Should this be reported as a bug?
>
> Peter
>
>
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