[Chandler-dev] Re: Decoupling "from" from "send as" in email, and related issues

[Bryan Stearns]

Yes, good point - I'd noticed that that situation is currently broken 
(file a bug if you want), and I was thinking about rewriting the parser 
to deal with it (pulling off "tokens" instead of splitting on ',' first) 
- I don't know that I need to do that for the current crop of tasks, but 
might anyway.

...Bryan


Reid Ellis wrote:
> On Jan 31, 2007, at 21:55, Bryan Stearns wrote:
>> Brian Kirsch wrote [comments on my decoupling proposal] (thanks!):
>>> However, you are correct that the only time a email address really 
>>> needs to be valid is the moment before a send. We could refactor so 
>>> that right before
>>> calling the mail service to send the item the detail view checks 
>>> validity via the  EmailAddress.isValidEmailAddress on each string 
>>> token in the 'to' field (cc? bcc?).
>>
>> I don't think the detail view can know: your SMTP server might accept 
>> "bkirsch" by itself; all the detail view could really do is check for 
>> gross structural errors (odd numbers of doublequotes, etc.), and 
>> since the SMTP server's gonna do that anyway, why bother?
>
> One reason to bother about basic parsing (like quotes) is that we need 
> to know where one email address ends, and another begins. e.g. "Edward 
> Affluent, the Third" <ed at rich.biz> is an email address, not two email 
> addresses. This is used in the "+N" code to show the number of 
> non-displayed addresses.
>
> Reid
>
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