[Kde-pim] Unexplained error message from kmail

[David Jarvie]

On Thu, August 6, 2009 3:09 pm, Tom Albers wrote:
> At Thursday 06 August 2009 16:05, you wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> 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>).
>>
>>
>
> The user has entered <Carey Fitzmaurice <xxx.xxx at xxx.xxx>> as address
> probably, removing the outer <> should make it work. Where in the stack it
> gets added is another question.

I'd be surprised if this is what is happening. The user has been using the
identity containing that email address for a long time. Also, KAlarm
normally sends mail using email addresses provided by kmail identities
without problem. There seems to be something special about this user's
particular configuration which is causing the error. Without knowing where
in KMail the error is arising, it's difficult to know what's going wrong.

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

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