Re: git-send-mail in sh

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Nov 25, 2005, 17:04 UTC
Message-ID: <43874415.8040302@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <20051125163358.GF16995@mythryan2.michonline.com>

Ryan Anderson wrote:

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> On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 10:45:41AM +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
>>Finally giving up on git-send-email (I won't install the 6 perl-modules 
>>it requires and I don't know perl enough to remove the need for them), I 
>>hacked up a replacement in sh. It's more aptly named as well. ;)
> 
> 
> Scanning the list, 2 are related to option handling (one of which is
> builtin), one isn't used (Data::Dumper), and two are related to sending
> valid emails.

When I try to install Email::Valid (using apt) it wants an additional two modules. Mail::Sendmail wants one other, so that's Data::Dumper, the two actually used and the three those two use. Six, for short.

> The email address verification is ridiculously hard to get
> correct, so using pre-written code for that seemed justified.
>

But it isn't necessary to validate it to such exactness. Nothing worse will happen than the user chiding himself for his butterfingers if he/she makes a mistake.

Besides, I think typos are by far the most common error. Those are usually valid email addresses while still not being correct.

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