Invalid mailbox syntax is used w/ Selectable Recipient with Pipes

Just a note that might help someone in the future…

The following thread addressed one reason why a Selectable Recipients with Pipes dropdown (select) field name might throw an “Invalid mailbox syntax is used” validation error:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/to-mail-not-validating-with-use-of-pipe-field/

That thread instructs that the select element must be a required field.

But that’s not the only possible answer. I had a similar problem, even though my select element was a required field.

After much head scratching, I figured out that another cause of the problem was a line break in the CF7 tag.

I had a long selectable list, so I composed the CF7 tag in my text editor, with a new line between each option like this (mine was much longer):

[select* program class:program-selector include_blank 
"Program One|[email protected]" 
"Program Two|[email protected]" 
"Program Three|[email protected]" 
]

That made it much easier to read, but it does NOT work! I removed the line breaks and turned it into something more like this (but again, much longer):

[select* program class:program-selector include_blank "Program One|[email protected]" "Program Two|[email protected]" "Program Three|[email protected]" ]

That works (although it’s a lot harder to read when you need to change it.)

Hopefully someone else might find this helpful!

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