Interesting... Thanks for the link, Ben.
-----Original Message----- From: Ben Johansen [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 1:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Changing comma delim to semicolon delim in the Mail Action users, gotta love'm FYI, (you might know this, but thought i would mention it) you can have SUBJECT and BCC in the mailto I don't like to just throw up a mail thing without a subject, they might not mail it right off, (see first statement ;-) I split the email and use first mail as main mailto and subequent as bcc, actually saves on email server a href="mailto:[email protected][email protected],[email protected]&subject=newlet ter for some company" you can see all the possibilities here http://www.ianr.unl.edu/internet/mailto.html But, the reason it worked as comma separated in mailto was comma is the standard separator, but in Witango mail action, it is treated as an array, and that is why you needed the semi-colon, to separate the email addresses, when witango sends the mail to mail server it will comma separate the addresses On Feb 7, 2010, at 9:29 AM, Webdude wrote: > "You're trying to create a hyperlink, not insert the address in a mail > action, ok. > > No... I am trying to do both. The links that are displayed in results > to the user are hyperlinks when searching on the site. The table is > also used for a bulkemail program and newsletter I have set up. Each > string (with multiple email addresses) are loaded in one field (stupid > I know, but users who felt they needed to add more then one email > address added more emails using a comma to seperate them. In other > words, I had a field set up to take 150 characters and the users added > multiple email addresses in that field). > > Look... it's not a big deal. I can replace all the commas with a > semicolon in the table. In the newsletter and bulkemail program, I can > simply use @replace and can get it to work just fine. I should have > been more stringent in what the users were inputting. The probelm is > most of the users are from China and and there seems to have been a > problem with a translation. > > Live and learn, eh? > > > -----Original message----- > From: Roland Dumas [email protected] > Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 11:39:13 -0600 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Changing comma delim to semicolon delim in > the Mail Action > >> You're trying to create a hyperlink, not insert the address in a mail >> action, ok. >> >> You can either create a one-row array with the column delimiter=; >> or you can spin your string with an <@ROWS><@COL NUM=X>;</@ROWS> >> >> On Feb 6, 2010, at 9:32 AM, Webdude wrote: >> >>> The reason is simple... most email clients seperate multiple >>> addresses by semicolon. If you load a db table with a string of >>> emails that are comma delimited, you cannot create a hyperlink that >>> will load the emails into the email client automatically. For >>> example, a string of emails returned from a table like thus... >>> >>> [email protected],[email protected],[email protected] >>> >>> when usung a hyperlink like this... >>> >>> <a >>> href="mailto:[email protected],[email protected],[email protected]";>user1@ >>> mail1.com ,[email protected],[email protected]</a> >>> >>> will not work, but it works fine using the Witango email action. >>> >>> But when using a string like this... >>> >>> [email protected];[email protected];[email protected] >>> >>> And using a hyperlink like this... >>> >>> <a >>> href="mailto:[email protected];[email protected];[email protected]";>user1@ >>> mail1.com ,;[email protected];[email protected]</a> >>> >>> Works for the email client, but not the email action in Witango. >>> >>> >>> >>> -----Original message----- >>> From: Ben Johansen [email protected] >>> Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 15:31:54 -0600 >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Changing comma delim to semicolon delim >>> in the Mail Action >>> >>> >>> at a loss for why?, but according to RFC 2822 comma is the only >>> separator allowed"The destination fields of a message consist of >>> three possible fields, each of the same form: The field name, which >>> is either "To", "Cc", or "Bcc", followed by a comma-separated list >>> of one or more addresses "Read more: >>> http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html#ixzz0ehQZoxaH >>> On Feb 5, 2010, at 8:35 AM, WebDude wrote: >>> Is this possible? I mean, when adding multiple emails in the To:, >>> CC:, etc. in the Mail Action. I know I can do a replace >>> character... 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