[dev] Bug 509, part 2

[Rich Lafferty]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 06:51:41AM -0500, Brent J. Nordquist (bjn@horde.org) wrote:
> OK, I've committed part 1 (to display the error message).
> 
> On part 2, I do think he has a point about people putting the full name in
> the from box; I know it has happened here on occasion.

As an example, we have a problem here with people putting what they
*want* their email address to be, in the from box. It really is a case
of user education, I think, but...
 
> The regex as specified is inelegant, and he agrees it won't work for all
> cases.  What if we invert the sense of it, and display an error if the
> field contains a bad character (space, comma, etc.) as we do in other
> places?

This seems to work -- might also require an @.

  -Rich

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