IT is not an IEEE standard.. I had issues with this Years ago.. ; is a microsoft thing, they snuck it in..
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Grooms, Frederick W < [email protected]> wrote: > ** > > Dave, > > > > I’m on Solaris and I have never been able to send emails using semi-colons > (currently on 7.1.0). The internet standards say to use a comma between the > addresses (Outlook is the only app I know of to use the semi-colon and if > you look at the internet headers in Outlook you see it uses a comma also). > I have a single filter on the Email Messages form (on Submit) that removes > all spaces and converts the semi-colon to a comma. > > > > According to the docs separating user logins on a single line by themselves > is allowed (My filter also changes the return to a comma). > > > > Fred > > > > *From:* Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Robert Fults > *Sent:* Thursday, November 12, 2009 8:11 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: E-mail engine - incredibly sensitive to formatting? > > > > ** > > I always comma separate email addresses and I have never had an issue, > never had any luck with semicolons. Running ARS 7.1 patch 007 on Windows > 2003. > > > > Sincerely, > > > > Robert Fults > > Remedy Dev > > Florida International University > > > > *From:* Barber, David [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Tuesday, November 10, 2009 11:12 AM > *Subject:* E-mail engine - incredibly sensitive to formatting? > > > > ** > > All, > > > > Is it just my imagination, or is the e-mail engine incredibly sensitive to > the formatting on multiple recipients. > > > > It seems to only accept them in the form [email protected]; [email protected] - if you > try to put space-semicolon-space, it seems to fail. Carriage returns (or > line feeds) are also not accepted. > > > > We're getting a lot of errors in our email messages form, some are from > valid errors (spaces within the address, multiple full stops), but others I > just cannot really figure. > > > > Currently running on ARS 7.0.1 patch 006 on Solaris. I had a look over > some email functionality on one of our old (and still running) ARS 4.5.2 > servers, and that seemed to be happy with the carriage returns .... > > > > Its impossible to educate thousands of users on the correct formatting, so > would have to perform a series of filter actions - remove all spaces, all > double full stops, all carriage returns, then replace every semi-colon with > semi-colon space ..... or is there a much easier option? > > > Regards > > > > Dave Barber > > > > > _Platinum Sponsor: [email protected] ARSlist: "Where the Answers > Are"_ -- Patrick Zandi _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor:[email protected] ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
