Re: [Pan-users] Mangled address when sending mail

[Charles Kerr]

> Anyone else seeing the email addresses being mangled between Pan and the
> external email program?  It's fine in the "Post Article" window, but it's
> not right when it makes it to Sylpheed.
>
> Example:
> Should be: desmobob <address@hidden>
> But in Sylpheed: desmobob%20%3cdesmobob%40takethisoutearthlink.net%3e

Pan's doing that encoding to make the text acceptable for a
mailto: URL[1], and I suspect sylpheed may not be decoding
the mailto url properly.  Could you try setting a different
mailer like Evolution or Thunderbird temporarily and seeing
how they handle the same message?

cheers,
Charles

[1] See pan/gui/post-ui.cc::encode()
and http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt