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Sebb edited comment on WHIMSY-49 at 3/18/16 6:55 PM:
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There is another availid with - in it:
tony--
There is already a 'tony'
It seems unlikely that 'tony' will use a suffix prefixed with '\-\-', but if
'tony\-\-' forgets to add another '\-' suffix the e-mail will presumably go to
'tony' instead.
[I assume QMail strips off trailing suffixes until it reaches a valid account,
so 'tony--xyz' => 'tony-' => 'tony']
was (Author: s...@apache.org):
There is another availid with - in it:
tony--
There is already a 'tony'
It seems unlikely that 'tony' will use a suffix prefixed with '--', but if
'tony--' forgets to add another '-' suffix the e-mail will presumably go to
'tony' instead.
[I assume QMail strips off trailing suffixes until it reaches a valid account,
so 'tony--xyz' => 'tony-' => 'tony']
> Does INFRA-7390 have implications for allowable user ids?
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>
> Key: WHIMSY-49
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WHIMSY-49
> Project: Whimsy
> Issue Type: Task
> Reporter: Sebb
> Attachments: WHIMSY-49-2.patch
>
>
> INFRA-7390 introduced e-mail aliases of the form
> availid-suf...@apache.org
> Now there are already some availids which contain a hyphen "-".
> Currently the list is:
> an-selm
> james-masanz
> jean-louis
> rgb-es
> soc-xzw
> swaroop-aj
> To avoid ambiguity, this means that the following ids should not be issued
> an
> james
> jean
> rgb
> soc
> swaroop
> AFAICT, these ids have not yet been allocated.
> But if any such ids were issued, there would be opportunities for mails to be
> unexpectedly misdirected.
> I don't know how potential availids are screened for suitability.
> If there is an automated check, it should be trivial to add the first part of
> existing ids to the list of exclusions.
> Note that the suffix can contain hyphens, so an availid of the form "a-b-c"
> should disallow "a-b" as well as "a", etc. for additional hyphens
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