[REBOL] Re: E-Mail saving & loading
From: gscottjones:mchsi at: 9-Jul-2002 7:16
From: phil
> I have a problem with my email client .... if I save an email that is
addressed
> to multiple users andd then reload it in using import-email the to field
only
> gets set with a single user.
<snip>
rest of email can be seen at:
http://www.escribe.com/internet/rebol/m23847.html
Hi, Phil,
I was checking it out when Gabriele made reference to one essential issue
and one work around:
http://www.escribe.com/internet/rebol/m23855.html
Knowing that you are working on your most-excellent REBOL email client, I
suspect that your sample script shows how you hoped to store multiple email
addresses, namely:
> lv-hdr: make system/standard/email [
> Subject: "Subject Line"
> to: [[user1--test--com][user2--test--com]]
> from: [me--test--com]
> date: to-idate now
> Content-Type: {text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"}
> ]
suggests to me that you hoped to store the multiple email addresses in a
block. In addition to Gabriele's suggestion, I can find two alternative
approaches that you can explore. One is to present the block as a string,
with a comma or semicolon separator:
...
to: "[user1--test--com], [user2--test--com]"
...
Another approach is to hack the parser. The "offending" routine can be seen
with:
probe mail-list-rules
where the mail list rule considers addresses as being separated by a comma
or semicolon:
maillist: [
mailbox (append addr-list to-email addr)
[[thru "," | thru ";"] maillist | none]
]
Appending the option of addresses as being separated by a space will "fix"
the problem.
append mail-list-rules/maillist/3/1 [| thru " "]
What I fear is that this "fix" might end up "breaking" something else. I
have no easy way to test this concern. (If it works for the purposes of
your program, then great, but warning to other users, I would hesitate
adding this to a user.r file, since it may break other scripts.)
I personally do not think that this is a bug, per se, in that the parse
rules seem to follow the standards. But as Gabriele points out, I guess the
rules could be just a bit "smarter" to accept a more REBOL way of
storing/presenting multiple addresses.
These are just my thoughts. Keep up the good-work on the email client, and
I hope that this helps.
--Scott Jones
