On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 16:37, Bill Hartwell wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 14:10, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > what message was the reply to? maybe you can try reproducing the
> > problem? and/or maybe I can take a look to see if anything stands out
> > that may have caused the problem?
> > 
> > Jeff
> > 
> > On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 16:11, Bill Hartwell wrote:
> > > Now the question comes of...how did Evolution queue a message with no
> > > recipients? For that matter, how did it lose the recipients when it was
> > > nothing more than a reply to a message on the list, which should have
> > > automatically brought the addresses over from the message it was a reply
> > > to?
> 
> The subject was "Built-in spam filtering?" and the message number was
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

thanks

> 
> I figure if you still have it in your message folders and can pull it
> up, it'll save a little bandwidth - and reduce the risk of something
> getting changed in transit.

yep, I still got it...

> 
> A possible solution that comes to my mind is that maybe the address got
> garbled or lost if it was one of those I trimmed down by deleting the
> ccs and copying the address I wanted to send it to from the Cc: field to
> the To: field. Since I have the mailing lists in my address book, they
> don't show up as addresses in the message editing display - instead,
> they show up with the IDs they have in my address book. Would cut/paste
> from one field to another break the link to the address book so that the
> ID is dereferenced?

it seems that it does. I just added "evolution users"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to my contacts database and then did a Reply-All
to the message and then trimmed out the To: address (Not Zed) and then
copied the "evolution users" string that represented the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] address in the Cc: field and pasted it into the To:
field and then deleted the Cc: field and hit Send, and you are right -
the addressbook is not properly resolving the "evolution users" string
into [EMAIL PROTECTED] and so feeds the mailer an empty address
string for the To: field.

The code that checks to make sure there are valid recipients simply
checks that there are EDestination structures (which there are, but the
EDestination structure representing the string "evolution users" does
not have an address to go with it).

I think I can probably modify the mailer to be more thorough when
checking that the message has recipients when you try to send (to
protect against this sort of thing).

Jeff

-- 
Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]  - www.ximian.com


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