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gnus should warn if no @ in recipient address

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From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (The Gnus Bugfixing Girls + Boys)
Subject: gnus should warn if no @ in recipient address
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 11:17:55 +0800

I wish gnus would have warned me,
before I sent

To: mwei%40lxde.org
Cc: debconf-team <at> lists.debconf.org

sailing off to the mailing list.

Yeah, it bounced, but the Cc: people all got my silly mistake.
(Yes I replaced the %40 I copied elsewhere with a @ later.)

In fact nowadays, most mail addresses have an @ in it.

Most people are the only person on the local machine.

So please warn otherwise.

Gnus v5.13
GNU Emacs 25.2.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.28)
 of 2018-02-19, modified by Debian

Message #8 received at 30590 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Cc: 30590 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30590: gnus should warn if no @ in recipient address
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 22:51:26 +0200

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org> writes:

> I wish gnus would have warned me,
> before I sent
>
> To: mwei%40lxde.org
> Cc: debconf-team <at> lists.debconf.org
>
> sailing off to the mailing list.
>
> Yeah, it bounced, but the Cc: people all got my silly mistake.
> (Yes I replaced the %40 I copied elsewhere with a @ later.)
>
> In fact nowadays, most mail addresses have an @ in it.
>
> Most people are the only person on the local machine.

It's true that very few people share computers with each other.  But
it's still not unheard of to work in companies where you don't have to
add the @company.name to the headers...

But you're right that the vast majority of mails people send these days
won't make it there without the @ in the address, so perhaps warning
would be nice?  It would have to be a configurable option, though, but
would default to `warn', I think.

Opinions?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

Message #15 received at 30590 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Cc: 30590 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30590: gnus should warn if no @ in recipient address
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2018 21:26:41 +0200

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> But you're right that the vast majority of mails people send these days
> won't make it there without the @ in the address, so perhaps warning
> would be nice?  It would have to be a configurable option, though, but
> would default to `warn', I think.
>
> Opinions?

Nobody had any opinions, and I tend to think that this isn't an idea
whose time has come, so I'm closing this bug report.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

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