[BUG] MailMessage cannot send to more than one email address

Doug Way dway at mailcan.com
Wed Jul 21 05:28:16 UTC 2004


In the MailComposition (MailMessage) window which comes up when doing 
'mail to list' from the changesorter, or 'mail out bug report' from the 
debugger, or 'email package maintainers' from SqueakMap, etc., it 
doesn't seem possible to send the email to more than one address.  
(Yes, this means that 'email package maintainers' in SM doesn't work 
after all if there is more than one maintainer :-( ... )

I'm not sure now if the problem is in MailMessage or in 
SMTPClient>>recipient:.  (I guess the DecentReviewerNotePad in BFAV 
sends to multiple To: address somewhat successfully, but it uses 
multiple To: fields which has the side-effect of confusing some email 
clients, and is not RFC822 approved.)

I tested this three different ways, by editing the contents of the To: 
portion of the MailComposition window, with the results below....

- Doug


Test 1:  ------------------------

"From: dway at mailcan.com
To: dway at mailcan.com, dew_dropper at hotmail.com
Subject: Regarding Whisker Browser

testing"

-> 553 5.1.3 <dway at mailcan.com, dew_dropper at hotmail.com>... Invalid 
route address

Test 2:  ------------------------

From: dway at mailcan.com
To: <dway at mailcan.com>, <dew_dropper at hotmail.com>
Subject: Regarding Whisker Browser

testing"

-> no error, but email only gets sent to the last address. (SMTPClient 
adds brackets around the whole To list, like this: 
"<<dway at mailcan.com>, <dew_dropper at hotmail.com>>"

Test 3:  ------------------------

"From: dway at mailcan.com
To: dway at mailcan.com
To: dew_dropper at hotmail.com
Subject: Regarding Whisker Browser

testing"

-> 553 5.1.3 <dway at mailcan.com, dew_dropper at hotmail.com>... Invalid 
route address





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