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

[Douglas Bollinger]

On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 19:16:45 -0500 (CDT)
"Charles Kerr" <address@hidden> wrote:

> > 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?

Evolution works fine, so the problem must be with Sylpheed and it's handling
of the mailto:: thingy.

Thanks guys!

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