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: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED];, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Peter Stokes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Pete Biggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -- char *t="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; 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: (c=*++x); c&128 && (s+=h); if (!(h>>=1)||!t[s+h]){ putchar(t[s]);h=m;s=0; }}} _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
