Hi Geoffrey,

That looks like the content of a "mailto:"; URL.  If you click on one in a browser window, 
Balsa should parse it and set up a compose window with recipient everything up to the first '?', 
and the subject and body set up as given (with the "%xx" triples properly decode, I 
believe).  Similarly, if Balsa is started at the command line with

balsa -m "mailto:customer...";

the initial compose window should be set up appropriately.

But if you copy and paste everything after "mailto:"; into the "To:" field, it's 
passed as is to GMime, which treats it as a comma-separated list of addresses, and passes back to 
Balsa a corresponding list of individual addresses, in this case just one.

I'm not sure where to find the definition of the syntax that this address 
violates--RFC 5322, perhaps.  I suppose Balsa could verify compliance, and try 
to guess what's wrong when it fails.  Thoughts, anyone?

Best,

Peter

On 01/08/2014 12:20:34 AM Wed, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
Here's the beginning of an email address that was given by a site:

[email protected]?subject=General%20Question&body=In%20order%20for%20us%20to%20better%20serve%20you%20please%20include%20the%20following%20information

The mail was rejected: error 501 - recpt syntax error.  Perhaps not surprising.

So - who's at fault? The website for generating the address with the trailing 
junk, or Balsa for not translating the junk into something presentable? Or me 
for not editing the address - to what?
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