David E. Ross wrote:
In my tests, the @ character was bracketed by a blank space on each
side. I then repeated the tests without blank spaces bracketing the
@.
...
Have you tried your cases in SeaMonkey's Safe Mode? I will redo my
tests in Thunderbird's Safe Mode later today, after I tend my garden
(this being the first in many days without a heat wave).
OK, I tried both ways (with and without spaces) in normal and safe
modes, and safe mode had no effect -- the program performed the same way
in both modes. Omitting the spaces also had no effect -- the program
still garbled the sending address by omitting or stripping quotation
marks, as the case might be. It is apparently willing to insert
quotation marks around the sending display name when it contains a
period or other punctuation, but not when it contains the "@" character.
For my correspondent's purposes (if she were using SM), the only way to
go would be to substitute the word "at" for the "@" character. Not as
cutesy, but it allows recipients to reply without difficulty.
For my purposes as a person trying to reply to her, I have to discard
the incoming mismarked From: field and call her record (which doesn't
contain the "@" character) from my address book.
In the composition window, as we have seen, if I manually enter
"Paul @ Gallagher" <[email protected]>
SeaMonkey overrides the punctuation and attempts to send to
"Paul@Gallaghermyprefix"@mydomain.com
which fails.
--
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--
Paul B. Gallagher
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