Bug 123326

Summary: Othere seperators than comma for seperating mail adresses
Product: [Applications] kmail Reporter: Marijn Schouten <hkBst>
Component: composerAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED WAITINGFORINFO    
Severity: wishlist CC: bjoern, luigi.toscano
Priority: NOR    
Version: 1.9.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Marijn Schouten 2006-03-09 12:12:41 UTC 
Version:           1.9.1 (using KDE KDE 3.5.1)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
OS:                Linux

When sending a mail to multiple receivers, if you do not use the correct separator(,) then a bad error message is produced:

"The email address you entered is not valid because it contains more than one @. You will not create valid messages if you do not change your address."

Instead of the complete weirdness of the second sentence, it would be much more helpful to say what the address separator is. It would be even more useful if multiple separators were recognized.

The best solution would be if each space delineated word containing an '@' would be interpreted as an address
Comment 1 Ismail Onur Filiz 2006-03-09 22:18:53 UTC 
I have looked at the code, and separators other than space look easy to implement. The complexity of space stems from the fact that you can write things like:

First Last <first.last@foo.com>

first.last@foo.com (First Last)

first.last@foo.com "First Last"

all of which denote a single recipient, and complicate parsing. I will try to have a go at it if I have time, and it is OK to modify the relevant function.

As for the error message, you are right that it doesn't make much sense. Nevertheless KDE 3.5.2 is in string freeze, so clarification can be done for 3.5.3 at best.
Comment 2 Myriam Schweingruber 2012-08-18 08:13:34 UTC 
Thank you for your feature request. Kmail1 is currently unmaintained so we are closing all wishes. Please feel free to reopen a feature request for Kmail2 if it has not already been implemented.
Thank you for your understanding.
Comment 3 Luigi Toscano 2012-08-19 00:35:54 UTC 
Instead of creating a new feature request, please confirm here if the wishlist is still valid for kmail2.