Properly format email recipient addresses

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I have a list of email addresses on my database that I fetched into an array. I want to be able to send messages to all of them with email intent. Everything worked fine but I discovered that my gmail app was bouncing the messages because most of the email addresses were not properly formatted. Screenshot

How do I remove those tags such that the email addresses would be formatted to show just comma separator for the recipients?

private List<String> userEmails = new ArrayList<>();
    String emailsWithTags = TextUtils.join(",", userEmails);
            String result = emailsWithTags.replaceAll("<","").replaceAll(">", "");
            Intent email = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO);
            email.setData(Uri.parse("mailto:"+ result));
            email.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, mMessage.getText().toString());
            email.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Notification ");
            startActivity(Intent.createChooser(email, "Choose an Email client :"));

Possible duplicate of [How to send email to multiple recepients in android?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14496687/how-to-send-email-to-multiple-recepients-in-android) — sanoJ, Jul 09 '19 at 05:41
but it does not show those tags on my Logcat. am confused about this. — bensofter, Jul 09 '19 at 06:40
Did you solved the problem? I tested it now and it was working correctly ie without the tags — sanoJ, Jul 09 '19 at 14:12
@sano, it works well when I used yahoo app, but show the tags with gmail app. — bensofter, Jul 09 '19 at 20:18

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 09 '19 at 06:21

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If the above answer mentioned in the comment didn't help you, You can do a simple string replace to remove the < > tags as given below,

String emailsWithTags = TextUtils.join(",", userEmails);
String result = emailsWithTags.replaceAll("<","").replaceAll(">", "");
Intent email = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO);
email.setData(Uri.parse("mailto:"+ result));

answered Jul 09 '19 at 06:21

sanoJ

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I got the same result. tags still visible. please review my updated code – bensofter Jul 09 '19 at 06:27

Properly format email recipient addresses

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