On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 5:35 PM, James Antill <<a href="mailto:james@fedoraproject.org">james@fedoraproject.org</a>> wrote: <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">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,<a href="mailto:elmegheny@hotmail.com">elmegheny@hotmail.com</a>,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. </div> Kind of: rfc2822: <a href="http://3.4.1." target="_blank">3.4.1.</a> Addr-spec specification They are allowed, along with most everything else, but only with a quoted string ... so "mahmoud,elmegheny"@<a href="http://hotmail.com" target="_blank">hotmail.com</a> is a valid email addr. but without the quotes it isn't. -- James Antill <<a href="mailto:james@fedoraproject.org">james@fedoraproject.org</a>> Fedora</blockquote><div>Then maybe we should change the delimiter, although this seems like it is pretty rare. -Anand </div></div>