279016 - Quote characters are not allowed in the default emailregexp

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 415658

(Bugzilla :: User Accounts, defect)

Description

[Jon Schewe]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.2; Linux) (KHTML, like Gecko)
Build Identifier: 

SMTP addresses are allowed to have single quote characters (') before the @ in 
an email address.  I have such a user and this bug was fixed in 2.16, but 
seems to be not allowed in 2.18 by default.  Could the default be changed? 

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

SMTP addresses are allowed to have a LOT of things in them that they really
shouldn't have. :-)

However, I suppose people should be allowed to do what they want to do...

What's the error that you get? I don't see any checkins on editparams that
should cause that problem:

<http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvslog.cgi?file=mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/editparams.cgi&root=/cvsroot>

Comment 2

[Jon Schewe]

This shows up during a sanity check.  When I run the sanity check against my 
old database I get an error that the email address is invalid.  When I checked 
the default emailregexp I found that it doesn't allow single quotes.  This 
comes into play when working with people from Ireland. 

Comment 3

[Frédéric Buclin]

*** Bug 281958 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Vance Baarda]

We can reproduce this problem at bugzilla.novell.com (bugzilla 2.20). A possible fix is to change emailregexp from this:

^[\\w\\.\\+\\-=]+@[\\w\\.\\-]+\\.[\\w\\-]+$

to this:

^[\\w\\.\\+\\-=\']+@[\\w\\.\\-]+\\.[\\w\\-]+$

The fix would actually be in defparams.pl, not editparams.cgi

Comment 6

[Frédéric Buclin]

Fixed in Bugzilla 5.0.