Bug 63229 - kmail uses whole GECOS field instead of breaking it up
Summary: kmail uses whole GECOS field instead of breaking it up
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Status: CLOSED CANTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kdenetwork
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Petr Rockai
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-04-11 14:56 UTC by Preston Brown
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:41 UTC (History)
0 users

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Last Closed: 2006-10-18 18:23:52 UTC
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Description Preston Brown 2002-04-11 14:56:39 UTC
Description of Problem: 
Unlike most mailers, when you simply enter a local username into kmail as a mail target 
(i.e. pbrown, brosenkr), KMail guesses that their real name is the whole GECOS field, 
instead of breaking the field up on comma (",") boundaries.  Thus instead of mailers like 
mutt, pine, evolution, etc. guessing my name for pbrown is "Preston Brown", my name 
becomes: 
 
 
"Preston Brown,OS Development/Director of Linux Development,1-919-547-0012 x44280" 
<pbrown.redhat.com> 
 
That's a little verbose. 
 
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 
KMail 1.4 (kde 3.0.0) 
 
How Reproducible: 
every time

Comment 1 Petr Rockai 2006-07-17 18:23:25 UTC
This bug is reported against old release of Red Hat Linux or Fedora Core 
that is no longer supported. Chances are that it has been already fixed in 
newer Fedora Core release. If you still experience the problem with 
current release of Fedora Core, please update the Version field (you may 
need to switch Product to Fedora Core first) in the bug report and put it 
back to NEW state.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2006-10-18 18:23:52 UTC
Red Hat Linux is no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. If you are still
running Red Hat Linux, you are strongly advised to upgrade to a
current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable.
Some information on which option may be right for you is available at
http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/.

Red Hat apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We do
want to make sure that no important bugs slip through the cracks.
If this issue is still present in a current Fedora Core release, please
open a new bug with the relevant information.

Closing as CANTFIX.


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