v1.0.27: email address added to friends list improperly?

[MarkRH]

When I added the YourOG&[email protected] sender email address from the main pane to the friend's list, it added it as [email protected]. It already had yourog&[email protected] in the list from the initial import from MW 6.51 but apparently didn't match. I guess this version treats "&" special. I don't know why they'd put that in their email address, but they did.

[anniebrion]

Try YourOGamp;[email protected] and see if that matches.

& is a valid character for email addresses so should work

[stan_qaz]

I tried entering this directly into the friends list by typing it and it looked like it worked.

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I went looking at the regex site, the "&" doesn't seem to be a reserved character: http://www.regexlab.com/en/deelx/syntax.htm

It looks fine in the database: 501|2010-10-01 21:37:08|yourog&ebill@oge\.com

What happens if you type it in instead of trying to add it using the add menus?

[MarkRH]

Well, the problem is, it didn't match on the address that was already in the list. Anyway, I'll have to make a custom email address to test this with. I won't get another email from them for another month.

[MarkRH]

The real problem was that yourog&[email protected] was already in my friends list and it failed to match it. I am going on the assumption that it's using case insensitive matching.

I just did a test where I manually added mark&[email protected] to the friends list and then sent myself an email using that address as the from address. MWP2010 failed to match that address with the friends list. If I add [email protected] to the friends list then it thinks mark&[email protected] matches it. So basically, it thinks that whatever& doesn't even exist or just ignores that portion of the email address.

[stan_qaz]

That should give the programmers something to look for. The friends list is stored in an SqLite database as regex strings so likely they missed escaping the "&" going in or out of the code.

[rusticdog]

On the fix list, we'll get this done very soon.

Cheers
rd