0017275: email matching within Mantis should follow html5 standard - MantisBT

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0017275	mantisbt	email	public	2014-05-02 19:09	2015-09-06 17:37

Reporter	grangeway	Assigned To	dregad
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	have not tried
Status	closed	Resolution	fixed
Target Version	1.3.0-beta.3	Fixed in Version	1.3.0-beta.3

Summary	0017275: email matching within Mantis should follow html5 standard
Description	Mantis makes currently makes use of a custom regex for email handling within string api. This was implemented before HTML5 defined an email pattern for use within browsers. We should replace our custom regex with the regular expression defined in HTML5 - this means that in future, the handling of email addreses within mantis should match the handling of email addresses within the web browser.
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MantisBT: master 3b584404 2014-06-03 07:54 dregad Details Diff	Add HTML5 email validation method (as default) As per grangeway's suggestion in pull request 172, we are now using an HTML5 specification-compliant regex to validate e-mail addresses by default instead of PHP method. Issue 0017275, 0017279	Affected Issues 0017275, 0017279
	mod - config_defaults_inc.php	Diff File
	mod - core/constant_inc.php	Diff File
	mod - core/email_api.php	Diff File
	mod - docbook/Admin_Guide/en-US/config/email.xml	Diff File
MantisBT: master bb5da6b6 2015-04-04 08:17 dregad Details Diff	Use standard HTML5 regex in email_regex_simple() A future improvement for this would be to retrieve the regex from the PHPMailer library to ensure we are guaranteed consistent behavior for our handling of e-mails, but this is currently not possible since the regexes are hardcoded in PHPMailer's validateAddress() method. Fixes 0017275, 0017279	Affected Issues 0017275, 0017279
	mod - core/email_api.php	Diff File

related to	0016894	closed	dregad	Don't allow invalid email addresses (e.g. fred@localhost) to be used when signing up
related to	0017279	closed	dregad	Email addresses validation and parsing is not consistent

dregad 2015-02-03 18:48 developer ~0048784	I think it would be best if PHPMailer provided a way to retrieve the validation regexes (they are currently hardcoded within the validateAddress() method), which would allow us to match emails in a consistent manner with how they are validated.