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April 24, 2003

Reply To All - literally
Posted by Jess in Tech Talk

This happened while ago (and probably doesn't happen with ND6) , but I thought I'd mention it. So here I was, choosing Reply To All in my email to 3 other people. I send it off, and then one of them writes back saying "who's *email@someotherdomain.com*"?

Good question! Apparently, the email made it to everyone on the list, and one extra person from a NAB I had somewhere on my hard drive (long forgotten it was still in Preferences for addressing). This person had the same last name as someone in the original sender list.

For some reason, my client felt compelled to ADD this 4th recipient to my email when it refreshed.

Here's what I think happened. One person had a "." in his email address. I read that there is a chance that using Reply to All, it might bounce to this person because it can do all sorts of funky stuff depending on how it's formatted. However, it did NOT strip off the domain, but apparently it thought it did. Because it felt compelled to look up the user in my forgotten NAB and add in an entry who had the same last name!

I think it THOUGHT it couldn't resolve the person's name, but it really could. But by that time, it had already looked up a similar name and dropped it in also.

So, needless to say, I had to write a "sorry 'bout that" email to the person who it got sent to by mistake, and now I always refresh first JUST in case.

And I stopped using that darned extra addressbook!

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