On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 10:18:46AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Matthieu Moy <matthieu....@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
> 
> >> On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 02:16:42PM +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> > ...
> > If I had a time machine, I'd probably go back then and forbid multiple
> > addresses there, but ...
> >
> >> There does not seem to be single commit in the kernel where multiple
> >> address are specified in a CC tag since after git-send-email started
> >> allowing it, but there are ten commits before (to my surprise), and that
> >> should be contrasted with at least 4178 commits with trailing comments
> >> including a # sign.
> >
> > Hey, there's a life outside the kernel ;-).
> > ...
> >>> 1) Stop calling Mail::Address even if available.[...]
> >>
> >> Right, that sounds like the right thing to do regardless.
> >>
> >>> 2) Modify our in-house parser to discard garbage after the >. [...]
> >>
> >> Sounds perfectly fine to me, and seems to work too after quick test.
> >
> > OK, sounds like the way to go.
> >
> > Do you want to work on a patch? If not, I should be able to do that
> > myself. The code changes are straightforward, but we probably want a
> > proper test for that.
> 
> The true headers and the things at the bottom seem to be handled in
> a separate loop in send-email, so treating Cc: found in the former
> and in the latter differently should be doable.  I think it is OK to
> explicitly treat the latter as "these are not e-mail addresses, but
> just a single e-mail address possibly with non-address cruft",
> without losing the ability to have more than one addresses on a
> single CC: e-mail header.

That's precisely what the patch I posted earlier in the thread did.

Thanks,
Johan

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