Slight issue with .Mac and mail

By Xavier Rissley. Original by Lionel - 12/09/2003 11:26:35 CEST - Category: Apple

Let's let it to Dimitri to explain it:

I just experienced a quite lame "bug" with my .mac mail account, and apparently I am neither the first nor the last to whom it might happen:
If you by chance write many first names, separated by commas in a card of your AddressBook, as ilusstrated here after (that coul dbe to put a whole family under one mail address and on one card):

and then you wan to send a mail to the said contact (Mail would autofill with the card names),

Then your mail, which is duely sent to , is also sent to the addresses jean@mac.com and marie@mac.com !
whe it happened to me, I was lucky to get an answer from one of the mistakenly contatced persons, who actually confirmed me it was happening quite often to him.
I could afterwards reproduce the bug, and observe that it happens also when NO ADDRESS is filled in in the card in AddressBook. Well, you can imagine the amount of e-mails sent to the worng places in case of grouped mails!
As a conclusion of this story: .Mac is taking some quite unwanted initiatives. So:
1. avoid using the smtp.mac.com, prefer to use your ISP smtp server.
2. avoid commas in names, and cards without e-mail address in AddressBook (really handy!)