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

[Duncan]

Douglas Bollinger <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Sat, 19 Aug 2006
18:06:33 -0400:

> On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 19:20:21 +0000 (UTC)
> "Duncan" <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Try describing the example in words, and/or using user (at) domain (dot)
>> tld format, so gmane doesn't munge it.
> 
> All the special characters were replaced with something else.  Those special
> characters being less-than "<" which was replaced with %3c, greater-than ">"
> which was replaced with "%3e" and good ole ampersand "@" with "%40".  Also the
> space was replaced with "%20".
> 
> Since it works for you, it must be something odd about my system.  Weird.

Well, yes and no.  pan now detects environment (kde/gnome/ms/osx) and
sends thru the mailer configured there to handle the mailto: protocol. 
I'm running kde for both browser (konqueror) and mailer (kmail) as well as
environment in general (kde), so as long as pan got the protocol handler
invocation correct, everything else is integrated and /should/ work, so
it's little surprise it does.  

Sylpheed for your mailer, but on what platform?  I don't believe sylpheed
is the native mailer for any of the above, so on top of possible bugs in
pan to environment, you also have possible bugs in how your mailer is
configured there.

There's also a "custom" setting in preferences.  Try checking sylpheed's
command line options and setting up custom there.  You can also try
sending from something else in your environment, and/or revisiting those
settings, not pan's, and see if you can get it working there.

The bottom line is that something isn't quite functional, but from this
alone, we don't know if it's pan or your environment settings or what.  If
you can figure it out and narrow it down to pan, that's a pan bug Charles
will be interested in.  Else, it might be a bug in your environment, or
possibly sylpheed's mailto: handling, or your specific settings.  If it's
not the last, but a bug in your environment or sylpheed, they'd probably
be interested in the bug.

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