Re: [PATCH 2/3] send-email: only consider lines containing @ or <> for automatic Cc'ing

[Rasmus Villemoes <rv@rasmusvillemoes.dk>]

On 2018-10-10 14:57, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Oct 10 2018, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> 
>> +			if ($c !~ /.+@.+|<.+>/) {
>> +				printf("(body) Ignoring %s from line '%s'\n",
>> +					$what, $_) unless $quiet;
>> +				next;
>> +			}
>>  			push @cc, $c;
>>  			printf(__("(body) Adding cc: %s from line '%s'\n"),
>>  				$c, $_) unless $quiet;
> 
> There's a extract_valid_address() function in git-send-email already,
> shouldn't this be:
> 
>     if (!extract_valid_address($c)) {
>     [...]
> 
> Or is there a good reason not to use that function in this case?
> 

I considered that (and also had a version where I simply insisted on a @
being present), but that means the user no longer would get prompted
about the cases where the address was just slightly obfuscated, e.g. the

Cc: John Doe <john at doe.com>

cases, which would be a regression, I guess. So I do want to pass such
cases through, and have them be dealt with when process_address_list
gets called.

So this is just a rather minimal and simple heuristic, which should
still be able to handle the vast majority of cases correctly, and at
least almost never exclude anything that might have a chance of becoming
a real address.

Rasmus