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

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

semicolons are invalid as rfc822 address separators. They have special
meaning in rfc822 address lists - they are meant only as a terminator
for address groups. For example:

To: INTERNET: foo bar com, some one com;, else local org

(see http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0822.txt, Section 6 for BNF grammar)

to answer the parent post, Outlook does not actually place ;'s in the To
field. It replaces them with commas or something.

anyways, people have already complained (it is also already filed) that
they can't use semicolons as address separators - however, this is
something that needs to be handled by the To/Cc entry fields which are
part of the addressbook component.

Jeff

On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 11:00, guenther wrote:
                             From: 
guenther <guenther rudersport de>
                               To: 
Peter Stokes <peter ashlyn co uk>
                               Cc: 
Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>,
evolution lists ximian com
                          Subject: 
Re: [Evolution] Only 1 email adress
possible in the TO: CC: AND BCC:
fields? (Version 1.4.0)
                             Date: 
 Tue, 09 Sep 2003 17:00:44 +0200 
(11:00 EDT)
                           Mailer: 
Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 
        
        > > 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?
        > 
        > 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?
        
        
        I just checked the mail I sent as first response -- and my local
        Sent
        mail does not have the "; <email>" part anymore. So it seems,
        Evolution
        silently dropped this? :-/
        
        IMHO this should be filed as a bug, only if this is Evos fault.
        I
        personally don't know, if the semicolon is valid at all.
        However,
        dropping this *without* noticing the user is bad.
        
        Maybe the mail hackers or anyone knowing the relevant RFC by
        heart can
        shed some light?
        
        ...guenther
        
        
        -- 
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        *t="\10pse\0r\0dtu\0  ghno\x4e\xc8\x79\xf4\xab\x51\x8a\x10\xf4\xf4\xc4";
        main(){ char h,m=h=*t++,*x=t+2*h,c,i,l=*x,s=0; for
        (i=0;i<l;i++){ i%8? c<<=1:
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        putchar(t[s]);h=m;s=0; }}}
        
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