Space in front or at end of Evolution email addresses prevents mails from being sent

[clovepower]

Binary package hint: evolution

evolution 2.22.3.1-0ubuntu1

Ubuntu 8.04.1 AMD64
Linux set 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 17:53:40 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

1. Start Evolution

2. Click File > New > Contact to create a new contact

3. Enter contact full name and email address. WHEN TYPING THE EMAIL ADDRESS PUT A SPACE IN FRONT AND AFTER THE EMAIL.

4. Click OK to close contact dialog and create the contact

5. Click File > New > "Mail message" to create a new mail

6. In To: field type the name of the newly created contact.

Evolution will auto-complete the field with the email address you entered at point 3.

Note that THE LEADING AND TRAILING SPACES WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE EMAIL ADDRESS BETWEEN ANGLE BRACKETS. This will cause SMTP servers to reject the address (it happens with gmail servers for sure).

When user enters leading and trailing spaces in contacts email addresses, these should be stripped away by the program.

It's good programming practice to always strip leading and trailing spaces in any input field anyway.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, the issue is an upstream one, could you open it on bugzilla.gnome.org too?

[clovepower (mzattera)]

See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=554414

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for sent it to GNOME

[Jörg Frings-Fürst (jff-de)]

bug from 2008. Version not more supported.
change status to Fix Released (see gnome-bugs)