FAS dump breakage

[Anand Capur]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 5:35 PM, James Antill <james at 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 at 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.
>
> --
> James Antill <james at fedoraproject.org>
> Fedora

Then maybe we should change the delimiter, although this seems like it is
pretty rare.
-Anand
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