[imp] Commas vs. Semi-Colons

[hhoffman@r-u-i.com]

Hey Rich,
   I was just thinking a little bit more about this and wanted to pick your 
brain a bit if you don't mind? If I did write a JS routine to change the 
semicolon's in the personal contacts to commas in the To:'s then I would be in 
compliance with Internet standards, right? My reasoning is this. In the To: 
section I would be seperating each email address with a comma so it should be 
deliverable. Also, if this is kept in a db then when I implement something that 
is compliant rather than hacked it will be (probably) easier to do an UPDATE to 
the db. Any thoughts are greatly appreciated as I'm trying to think out the 
whole situation before acting upon it.
Thanks again,
Harry

Quoting Rich Lafferty <rich@horde.org>:

> On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 04:50:06PM -0800, hhoffman@r-u-i.com
> (hhoffman@r-u-i.com) wrote:
> > Hey Rich,
> >   Is it just the case that one cannot store more than one name in
> > the Contacts then?
> 
> That's correct.
> 
> > ie -> Address: joe@user.com; john@user.com; harry@user.com
> 
> Despite what Microsoft would like you to think, that's a single
> (invalid) address, not three. The semicolon is not an address
> separator in Internet mail; it's used to delimit group names, and is
> ignored by mail transports.
> 
> > If one did this could you not then have a JavaScript routine to change
> the semi-
> > colons in the Contacts to commas in the To: ?
> 
> One could do that, if one wanted to abandon Internet mail standards.
> 
> Support for group addressbook entries is available in Turba, which is
> what the next version of IMP will use for its addressbooks.
> 
> This has been hashed out on the mailing list numerous times; please
> check the archives.
> 
>   -Rich
> 
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