Bug#532855: incorrect parsing of e-mail addresses (to evolution)

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort pochu at ubuntu.com
Fri Jul 17 09:23:52 UTC 2009


Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> Package: nautilus-sendto
> Version: 0.14.0-4
> Severity: normal
> 
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> Hi,
> 
> I want to send myself a text file in an email via evolution. In
> evolution there is a contact for myself consisting of my name and an
> email address. I right-click on the specific file I want to send and
> choose "Send to". I choose "Send as: Email (Evolution)" and begin to
> type my name into the "Send to" field. After having typed the first
> letters "Fab" I click on the suggested "Greffrath, Fabian
> <fabian at xxgreffrathxx.com>" - all love autocomplete! I confirm by
> clicking on the "Send" button, an evolution composer window opens and I
> write my text and send the email.
> 
> So far so good, except for the fact that evolution has actually sent two
> (!) emails: One at "Greffrath" and one at "Fabian
> <fabian at xxgreffrathxx.com>". I believe this happened, because evolution
> has interpreted the parsed email address as a comma-separated list of
> two addresses while the comma was only to separate my first name from
> the last name.

Looks like this redhat[1] bug, and this is the fix[2]. I'll backport it to 0.14.0

Cheers,
Emilio

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438695
[2]
http://git.gnome.org/cgit/nautilus-sendto/commit/?id=97ea1b5c84de6e8a93d2ff669602b6946651b92f

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