mail adresses concatenated without commas in between

[Hans Drexler]

When people create new PR's I get the problem that GNATS produces
garbled mail addresses. It seems that these addresses are the
concatenation of:
- the principal contact mentioned in the submitters file
- the responsible person from the PR's category
- any mail adresses appearing in the notify fields

for example:
from "submitters"
drexler:Hans Drexler:none:1:drexler:tvngeo:

from the file "categories"
WOZteam:GeoTax WOZ team client:bbmgr:tvngeo,maxim,helpdesk

Then a PR filed for category WOZteam send by committer "drexler" causes
an e-mail to be sent to:

drexlertvngeotvngeo (invalid e-mail address)
tvngeotvngeo (invalid e-mail address)

(below is an exerpt from the mail log file).

Does somebody have a clue what is happening here?

We use gnats 3.113 on FreeBSD and sendmail. All names have local mail
accounts.

Hans Drexler
address@hidden

Jul  4 14:29:56 mail sendmail[27842]: f64CTum27840: 
to="|/usr/local/libexec/gnats/queue-pr --queue", ctladdr=geotax-bugs-submit 
(65533/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, pri=31102, dsn=2.0.0, 
stat=Sent
Jul  4 14:30:00 mail sendmail[27857]: f64CU0327857: from=gnats, size=534, 
class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<address@hidden>, address@hidden
Jul  4 14:30:01 mail sendmail[27867]: f64CU1f27867: from=gnats, size=537, 
class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<address@hidden>, address@hidden
Jul  4 14:30:03 mail sendmail[27882]: f64CU3Y27882: from=<gnats>, size=874, 
class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<address@hidden>, address@hidden
Jul  4 14:30:03 mail sendmail[27859]: f64CU0327857: address@hidden, 
ctladdr=gnats (61/1), delay=00:00:03,
xdelay=00:00:03, mailer=amavis, pri=30534, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
Jul  4 14:30:03 mail sendmail[27890]: f64CU3t27890: to=drexlertvngeotvngeo, 
delay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=0, dsn=5.1.1, stat=User unknown
Jul  4 14:30:04 mail sendmail[27909]: f64CU4i27909: 
to=tvngeotvngeo,delay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=0, dsn=5.1.1, stat=User 
unknown