Thank you for your work, Veres-Szentkiralya Andras. Although I do not work with the Cake team, I do know that sending this to the Google Group isn't the proper place to submit change requests, and may go unseen by the developers.
To submit bug reports/patches/fixes, you would want to use their current ticket/repository system located (I believe) at Lighthouse: http://cakephp.lighthouseapp.com/home On Jan 26, 11:31 pm, "Veres-Szentkiralyi Andras" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > the e-mail address validator in CakePHP considers addresses in the form of > [email protected] invalid because of the regular expression used for this purpose > in cake/libs/validation.php. Although RFC 5322 specifies that the local-part > of an e-mail address cannot end with a dot, some providers (e.g. freemail.hu, > with 3 million mailboxes) allow users to get and use such e-mail addresses. > > From a technical viewpoint I agree that such addresses shouldn't be allowed to > be used, but saying "go away, leave our beloved RFC alone" to every user who > visits a CakePHP-based webshop or other website is not a solution either. > > I attached a patch, which fixes this particular problem, consider applying it. > > -- > Veres-Szentkirályi András > > 0001-Fixing-the-e-mail-validation-regexp-foo.-bar.com.patch > < 1KViewDownload Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en
