Tickets :: [#10364] Vacation email list separation issue with commas

6.0.0-alpha10

5/14/25

Summary	Vacation email list separation issue with commas
Queue	Ingo
Queue Version	2.0.2
Type	Enhancement
State	Accepted
Priority	1. Low
Owners
Requester	it (at) wenn (dot) com
Created	07/21/2011 (5046 days ago)
Due
Updated	07/30/2011 (5037 days ago)
Assigned	07/21/2011 (5046 days ago)
Resolved
Milestone
Patch	No

07/30/2011 12:03:26 PM	Jan Schneider	Type ⇒ Enhancement State ⇒ Accepted Priority ⇒ 1. Low

07/21/2011 03:49:24 PM	it (at) wenn (dot) com	Comment #6	Reply to this comment
You are supposed to enter email addresses each on a separate line. This should be clear from the address fields being textareas. But a patch to add some addtional comments to those fields would be helpful. supposed != users acualy do you/i know this but not all users read help files or even follow what they say, unforunatly this is what we have to deal with either comments or say the patch I supplied would work better i say to take the dumb factor out

07/21/2011 03:46:03 PM	Jan Schneider	Comment #5	Reply to this comment
You are supposed to enter email addresses each on a separate line. This should be clear from the address fields being textareas. But a patch to add some addtional comments to those fields would be helpful.

07/21/2011 03:29:33 PM	it (at) wenn (dot) com	Comment #4	Reply to this comment
What is "the system"? I.e. where do you see broken behaviour? Sieve output driver. If you enter (jon@abcd.com,steve@abcd.com' it will go like that into the seive vacation driver as "jon@abcd.com,steve@abcd.com" instead of "jon@abcd.com","steve@abcd.com" The patch ive entered overall fixes the issue on entering the email addresses by splitting it out onto new lines incase the user puts a comma or semicolon.

07/21/2011 03:25:41 PM	Jan Schneider	Comment #3 State ⇒ Feedback	Reply to this comment
What is "the system"? I.e. where do you see broken behaviour?

07/21/2011 10:12:30 AM	it (at) wenn (dot) com	Comment #2 New Attachment: vacation.patch	Reply to this comment
[Show Quoted Text - 13 lines][Hide Quoted Text] If a user entered their email addresses into the vacation filter with commas separating them but without a space, the system considered this all one email address. If a user puts a comma and a space the system splits the email addresses up but the comma then is added to the end of the email address it was directly after. Users have the habit to use commas so it would be prudent to try and detect several situations where a comma and semicolon is used as a separator with/without a space pre/post. On reading in all the email addresses, reformatting them onto separate lines after save could also aid readability for the user.

07/21/2011 10:00:49 AM	it (at) wenn (dot) com	Comment #1 Priority ⇒ 1. Low State ⇒ Unconfirmed Patch ⇒ Yes Milestone ⇒ Queue ⇒ Ingo Summary ⇒ Vacation email list separation issue with commas Type ⇒ Bug	Reply to this comment
If a user entered their email addresses into the vacation filter with commas separating them but without a space, the system considered this all one email address. If a user puts a comma and a space the system splits the email addresses up but the comma then is added to the end of the email address it was directly after. Users have the habit to use commas so it would be prudent to try and detect several situations where a comma and semicolon is used as a separator with/without a space pre/post. On reading in all the email addresses, reformatting them onto separate lines after save could also aid readability for the user.