Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] send-email: fix garbage removal after address

[Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 3:21 AM, Matthieu Moy <git@matthieu-moy.fr> wrote:
> This is a followup over 9d33439 (send-email: only allow one address
> per body tag, 2017-02-20). The first iteration did allow writting
>
>   Cc: <foo@example.com> # garbage
>
> but did so by matching the regex ([^>]*>?), i.e. stop after the first
> instance of '>'. However, it did not properly deal with
>
>   Cc: foo@example.com # garbage
>
> Fix this using a new function strip_garbage_one_address, which does
> essentially what the old ([^>]*>?) was doing, but dealing with more
> corner-cases. Since we've allowed
>
>   Cc: "Foo # Bar" <foobar@example.com>
>
> in previous versions, it makes sense to continue allowing it (but we
> still remove any garbage after it). OTOH, when an address is given
> without quoting, we just take the first word and ignore everything
> after.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <git@matthieu-moy.fr>
> ---

I pulled this and tested it for my issue, and it fixes the problem for
me. I think the approach in the code was solid too, extracting out the
logic helps make the code more clear.

Thanks,
Jake