On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 11:51 +0200, Daniel Nylander wrote: > ons 2007-08-22 klockan 10:27 +0100 skrev Pete Biggs: > > > > Can someone reproduce this? It's clearly a bug (if I'm correct) > > > > > > > Why is it 'clearly a bug'? The mail standard says that recipients are > > separated by commas with the semi-colon being used to terminate a group > > of mailboxes to be delivered to. In that respect Evo is adhering to the > > standard correctly. (See http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html) > > > > Why do you expect ';' and ',' to behave the same? > > If you're a user who are used to running Outlook (or Notes), for example > replaced the Outlook client with Evolution, who are used to using ';' to > separate addresses, and Evolution just ignores all addresses after the > ';', that would be a usability 'feature'.
No, Evolution does not ignore the addresses after the ';'. Evolution passes on the 'To:' header as you've written it to your MTA. It is the MTA that decides how to deal with it. > > There are of course ways around this. Evolution could pop up a message > saying that you should use ',' or just automagically replace all ';' > with a standardized ','. What happens if someone *meant* to put a semi-colon in - it *would* be a bug if Evo blindly converted all semi-colons to commas. Just because another MUA does things wrongly, it doesn't mean that Evo has to follow suit. > Being nice and informative towards the user is > the key issue here, not brutally follow standards. The standards aren't enforced by Evo, all Evo is doing is assuming that the user knows what they are doing. P. _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
