Re: [Evolution] Semicolon and colon

[Daniel Nylander <info danielnylander se>]

ons 2007-08-22 klockan 10:27 +0100 skrev Pete Biggs:

> > Can someone reproduce this? It's clearly a bug (if I'm correct)
>
> Why is it 'clearly a bug'?  The mail standard says that recipients are
> separated by commas with the semi-colon being used to terminate a group
> of mailboxes to be delivered to.  In that respect Evo is adhering to the
> standard correctly. (See http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html)
>
> Why do you expect ';' and ',' to behave the same?

If you're a user who are used to running Outlook (or Notes), for example
replaced the Outlook client with Evolution, who are used to using ';' to
separate addresses, and Evolution just ignores all addresses after the
';', that would be a usability 'feature'.

There are of course ways around this. Evolution could pop up a message
saying that you should use ',' or just automagically replace all ';'
with a standardized ','. Being nice and informative towards the user is
the key issue here, not brutally follow standards.

Regards,
Daniel Nylander