[imp] Semicolons in addresses

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Nate <nmollring at cennecs.org>:

|
| > The most common error my users are encountering is that Imp allows the
| use of
| > semicolons as seperators in mail addresses and passes them on to
| Sendmail,
| > which rejects them with a "bad address" error.  If Imp could parse
| addresses
| > for correct format and either return an address error or change the
| > semicolons
| > to commas a lot of errors would be eliminated.
| >

The problem with what you suggest is that semicolons _are_ legal separators
- they are used with sending via user defined mailing lists.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu]
The University of Colorado at Boulder