[Kde-pim] Unexplained error message from kmail

[David Jarvie]

On Fri, August 7, 2009 3:12 pm, Thomas McGuire wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thursday 06 August 2009 16:05:31 you wrote:
>> On Thursday 06 August 2009 16:25:31 David Jarvie wrote:
>> > Error sending email:
>> > The server did not accept the sender address "John Smith
>> > <jn.sm at epa.gov>". The server responded: "<John Smith <jn.sm at epa.gov>>:
>> > "@" or "." expected after "Carey""
>>
>> Original text from the bug report:
>> The server did not accept the sender address "Carey Fitzmaurice
>> <xxx.xxx at xxx.xxx>".
>> The server responded: "<Carey Fitzmaurice <xxx.xxx at xxx.xxx>>: "@" or "."
>> expected after "Carey""
>>
>> I may be completely wrong, but it looks like the server expects an email
>> address (a at b.c) and gets a pretty address instead (name with spaces
>>  <a at b.c>).
>
> That seems to be the case indeed.
> SMTP expects something like "MAIL FROM <a at b.c>", and the pretty address
> shouldn't be there.
> No idea how that can happen at all, since KMSender::doSendMsg() calls
> extractSenderToCCAndBcc() to get the From address, and that in turn calls
> extractAddrSpecs( "From" ), which seems to work fine for me.
>
> So sorry, I don't know what went wrong here.

Sorry for being inaccurate, but now that I check the KAlarm code, I see
that it's actually being sent by a MailTransport::TransportJob, rather
than KMail. Does this make a difference?

-- 
David Jarvie.
KDE developer.
KAlarm author & maintainer.
http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm

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