On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 5:35 PM, James Antill <james@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 16:23 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>
> > There has been an invalid entry returned by the FAS group dump for some
> > time:
> >
> >     bbs,disabled,james francis toy iv,user,0
> >
> > It contains no email address, but "disabled" in the addr field.
> >
> > Now there's another invalid entry:
> >
> >     mahmoudelmegheny,mahmoud,elmegheny@hotmail.com,Mahmoud Ali,user,0
> >
> > This entry consists of six fields instead of five. Perhaps one ',' is
> > supposed to be a '.'?
> >
>
> The first example is a result of the new privacy policy.  It is
> unfortunately valid.  The second one is a bit more troubling.  Anyone
> happen to know if ,'s are allowed in an email?  If they are perhaps we
> need a different delimiter.

 Kind of:

 rfc2822: 3.4.1. Addr-spec specification

 They are allowed, along with most everything else, but only with a
quoted string ... so "mahmoud,elmegheny"@hotmail.com is a valid email
addr. but without the quotes it isn't.

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James Antill <james@fedoraproject.org>
Fedora
Then maybe we should change the delimiter, although this seems like it is pretty rare.
-Anand