>bar.com" or "foo@@bar.com" is a valid email address and lets someone enter
>it, your app is broke.
I don't agree fully with this. While I validate new emails on the forms I
create, I don't always have control over new data. Lists can be imported,
other staff can access the database from the backend etc. Old bad data
lives on despite our best efforts.
I got hit with this one immediately after upgrading to 6.0. I'm surprised
more people haven't complained. But I addressed it as an annoyance,
validated emails as they are being input AND as they are being sent, and
flagged bad ones to not be sent to in the future.
It was surprising that what seemed to work well in 4.5 didn't work well in
MX. But, for me it was an education, I wasn't diligent enough about allowing
garbage in.
BG
>From: Thomas Chiverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: CFMX 'bug'? Easy to crash CFMAIL.
>Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 17:05:37 +0000
>
>On Tuesday 20 Jan 2004 16:57 pm, Adam Reynolds wrote:
> > Thomas,
> > Technically it is a bug. Cfmail should not throw an exception when
>passed
> > an email address (no matter what the content) Particularly if this is a
>new
> > bug introduced into 6.1
>
>It wasn't being passed an email address though, was it, which was my point.
>It was therefore within it's rights to throw an exception. The change in
>behaviour should have been documented, I agree.
>
>Also, though, Matt's testing should have caught this - because we test with
>real world data don't we :-)
>
>There is also a general rule about app design that goes along the lines of
>"try/catch any interaction with outside systems" - that would be things
>like
>mail servers, databases and fax machines.
>
> > Your email didn't help and the tone of it was derogatory. This list is
> > there for people to help each other. Please respect that.
>
>And I've both given and recieved it.
>
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