2010-02-19 07:02:52

by Stephen Hemminger

Subject: [PATCH 3/3] get_maintainer: quote email address with period

Picky mail systems won't accept email addresses where recipient
has period in name; ie. David S. Miller <davemloft.net> will not work.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>

--- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2010-02-18 22:57:00.614708380 -0800
+++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2010-02-18 22:57:00.634708417 -0800
@@ -551,7 +551,7 @@ sub parse_email {
$name =~ s/^\"|\"$//g;
$address =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g;

- if ($name =~ /[^a-z0-9 \.\-]/i) { ##has "must quote" chars
+ if ($name =~ /[^\w \-]/i) { ##has "must quote" chars
$name =~ s/(?<!\\)"/\\"/g; ##escape quotes
$name = "\"$name\"";
}
@@ -568,7 +568,7 @@ sub format_email {
$name =~ s/^\"|\"$//g;
$address =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g;

- if ($name =~ /[^a-z0-9 \.\-]/i) { ##has "must quote" chars
+ if ($name =~ /[^\w \-]/i) { ##has "must quote" chars
$name =~ s/(?<!\\)"/\\"/g; ##escape quotes
$name = "\"$name\"";
}

--

2010-02-20 02:43:17

by Joe Perches

Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] get_maintainer: quote email address with period

On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 23:01 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> plain text document attachment (get-maintainer-vger.patch)
> Picky mail systems won't accept email addresses where recipient
> has period in name; ie. David S. Miller <davemloft.net> will not work.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>