it's an empty group. it's syntactically meaningless. it's like extra whitespace between addresses... it's not needed.
Jeff On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 06:57, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 12:05 +0100, guenther wrote: > > Sorry, my bad. Now I see. Although my understanding of your initial > > explanation didn't change, not even with more coffee. ;) > > :) > > > Yep, I noticed the missing To: field myself. But it seems, this is due > > to the formatting of that header: > > > > To: People who needed an example of empty lists in To field:;People who needed an > > example of empty lists in To field: ;, ""@infradead.org > > That happened between me and you, and it wasn't done by any of my boxen. > I have this (I'm attaching the same message, but Evo might munge it even > when it's attached): > > pentafluge /home/dwmw2/Maildir/cur $ grep ^To: > ./1073299527.H151846P27187.pentafluge.infradead.org:2,S > To: People who needed an example of empty lists in To field: ; > pentafluge /home/dwmw2/Maildir/cur $ > > ... leading to the To: header being completely omitted from the display. > Perhaps if it had other addresses in it too then it wouldn't be > completely removed, as NotZed says. > > > However, I actually *have* seen the behavior in Evolution, as you want. > > The message was generated by Eudora and the To: field had some > > explanatory text, whereas all the addresses where not visible, cause > > they where sent Bcc:ed. > > > > So I assume, this is Evolutions fault parsing the To: header? > > Evo seems to have parsed it just fine, but decided for some reason to > discard part of it. > > -- > dwmw2 > > ______________________________________________________________________ > From: David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Bcc and lists in To: > Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 10:43:16 +0000 > > > By way of example... this message (sent from pine because Evo can't send > them like this) has a list in the To: field which explains why you're > getting this mail. > > It says: > To: People who needed an example of empty lists in To field: ; > > Evolution strips the To: header from the mail before sending it, and even > strips it on _displaying_ the mail. Unless you look at it in another MUA > you're unlikely to see it, even if you select 'View Mail Source'. _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
