https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34590

--- Comment #18 from Chad H. <[email protected]> 2012-03-05 20:56:13 UTC 
---
(In reply to comment #15)
> (In reply to comment #14)
> 
> > By doesn't actually work I do mean doesn't actually work. My email address 
> > on
> > my test wiki install is bawolff@localhost. Typing "bawolff@localhost" in to 
> > the
> > log in box does not log me into the account, as this patch looks for user's
> > with the address "Bawolff@localhost" (I also tried an account with an email
> > address containing underscores which failed for similar reasons. These were 
> > not
> > bad examples meant to make the patch fail. These were the pre-existing 
> > emails
> > that were on my test wiki).
> 
> @localhost can't be considered as a valid email, at least not for a user but
> for a developper ok. But the patch works, you can't authenticate this way but
> need your real username.
> 
> The patch is valid for MOST users, not all I agree. What I understand from 
> your
> Bawolff@localhost address is that you have a Linux account on the Wikipedia
> servers. Would it be possible to process the mysql test of my Comment #9? With
> its result we could refine our estimation of what MOST means (suppressing also
> addresses @localhost) and thus have a better of how many wikipedians users
> could benefit of such a patch.
> 

It's not only valid for developers (although that's the most common scenario).
You could have all of your e-mail inside your company in the form of
user@some-host-without-a-tld.

If this is going to be accepted, it should follow the same rules of
isValidEmailAddr() or whatever we call it these days, not just e-mails in
[email protected] form.

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