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zedcar wrote:

> - how do the semi-colons get there in the first place? You can't answer
> that - it must the the mail client or even the user that created the
> message I suppose. 

These headers are created by the user who wrote the message, mailservers
transporting the message should not alter message headers.

> But it's happening regularly from a variety of
> senders so it must be common practice, even if it is a violation of
> standards.

There are many clients out there that don't respect the standards, in
particular those by Microsoft.

> - second question: given that other mail clients manage to interpret the
> semi-colons correctly, is it not unreasonable to expect Evolution should
> do the same? I accept this is probably an enhancement request and not a
> bug, but gee it's a fine line between them.

Well, I agree that the behavior of Evolution is not the
user-friendliest. But after all it still is not a bug when a mail client
is respecting standards.

> Right now I'll have no option but to stop using Evo & find an
> alternative, which is a real shame. I'll follow your suggestion and post
> this to 'brainstorm'.

I'm sure there will be a change in this soon since you are probably not
the only one experiencing this problem.

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