On 10/11/2014 1:09 AM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
> 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.
>
I tried manually entering the To: address as
me @ roadrunner <[email protected]>
and also
"me @ roadrunner" <[email protected]>
In both cases, the resulting To: header field was
"me @ roadrunner" <[email protected]>
--
David E. Ross
I am sticking with SeaMonkey 2.26.1 until saved passwords can
be used when autocomplete=off. See
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1064639>.
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