Bug 123162

Summary:	Cannot use RFC2822 'group' in To: header.
Product:	[Applications] kmail	Reporter:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.9.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description David Woodhouse 2006-03-06 13:01:18 UTC

Version:           1.9.1 (using KDE KDE 3.5.1)
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs
OS:                Linux

When sending a mail to a large number of people, it is common to use the RFC2822 'group' construct, and to put the actual recipients in Bcc:. The 'To:' header will look like this:

   To: People invited to my party : ;

kmail doesn't seem to let me send that -- it complains that the address contains an invalid character.

If the group is empty, kmail also attempts to qualify it -- it turns it into 'People invited to my party : ;@infradead.org' before complaining of an invalid character. If the group has an address in it, kmail merely complains that 'People invited to my party : ;' has an invalid character, and the address is not shown in the error dialog box.

Comment 1 Jonathan Marten 2006-10-28 16:38:46 UTC

KDE bugs day: duplicate of 118284

Comment 2 Jonathan Marten 2006-10-28 16:44:21 UTC

Same root cause.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 118284 ***