On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 02:21:44PM +0000, Pete French
wrote:> This patch fixes a problem of mail missing addresses when replying
> to emails generated by some Microsoft systems, which do not insert a
> space after the comma in lists of addresses. Was filed as PR bin/131861
> If anyone who still uses /usr/bin/mail as their primarly email client
> could test it then I would be grateful (would also be garetful if
> someone could volunteer to commit it shold it prove to work fine :-) )
>
> -pete.
>
> --- usr.bin/mail/util.c.orig 2010-02-02 14:10:34.220987358 +0000
> +++ usr.bin/mail/util.c 2010-02-02 14:12:49.968147827 +0000
> @@ -496,10 +496,10 @@
> *cp2++ = ' ';
> }
> *cp2++ = c;
> - if (c == ',' && *cp == ' '
&& !gotlt) {
> + if (c == ',' && (*cp == ' '
|| *cp == '"') && !gotlt) {
> *cp2++ = ' ';
> - while (*++cp == ' ')
> - ;
> + while (*cp == ' ')
> + cp++;
> lastsp = 0;
> bufend = cp2;
> }
For what it's worth: note that Outlook, by default, uses semi-colon as
its delimiter between addresses in To/Cc/Bcc fields. The SMTP portion
of the Exchange interface might turn these into commas though, but I'm
not 100% certain (I'd have to manually check -- let me know if you want
me to).
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