Bug 2046203 - git send-email: error: unable to extract a valid address from
Summary: git send-email: error: unable to extract a valid address from
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: git
Version: 34
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Todd Zullinger
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2022-01-26 11:59 UTC by Jaroslav Škarvada
Modified: 2022-06-20 01:24 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2022-06-08 00:59:33 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Jaroslav Škarvada 2022-01-26 11:59:50 UTC
Description of problem:
git send-email --to='gitlab.incoming+datovka-libdatovka-1025-c5xvb0b6zbp5dsd9t8lf5y7ab-merge-request' patch.patch 

fails

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
git-2.34.1-1.fc34.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. git send-email --to='gitlab.incoming+datovka-libdatovka-1025-c5xvb0b6zbp5dsd9t8lf5y7ab-merge-request' patch.patch 
2.
3.

Actual results:
error: unable to extract a valid address from: gitlab.incoming+datovka-libdatovka-1025-c5xvb0b6zbp5dsd9t8lf5y7ab-merge-request

Expected results:
no error

Additional info:
This is valid address

Comment 1 Todd Zullinger 2022-01-26 17:07:54 UTC
This is fallout from 4414f61 (add more git-email perl dependencies, 2021-11-13)¹.

I don't believe it is a strictly valid address.  The local-part is longer than the allowed 64 octets² and the perl Email::Valid module which git send-email uses tests this restriction³.

  $ echo -n 'gitlab.incoming+datovka-libdatovka-1025-c5xvb0b6zbp5dsd9t8lf5y7ab-merge-request' | wc -c
  79

I'm not sure that it's a good idea to disable that.  Maybe it would be handy to have a way to override it if you know that all the mail tools in your path will handle it.  (Though it's clear that any which strictly adhere to the RFC's are likely to reject it.)

That is likely something that would need to be discussed on the git list to arrive at a consensus (and a patch).  It's not something I feel we should try to patch out of git in Fedora.

¹ https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/git/c/4414f61
² https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5321#section-4.5.3.1.1
³ https://github.com/Perl-Email-Project/Email-Valid/blob/master/lib/Email/Valid.pm#L297-L303

Comment 2 Jaroslav Škarvada 2022-01-27 10:01:45 UTC
Thanks for info.

It would be great to have an option to override this check. Or it could ask: this is not valid address according to RFC, do you want to still send the e-mail?

It seems this address is ad-hoc gitlab generated for pull requests via e-mail. The length depends on the project name. I have to contribute to such projects by using different tool than the git-send-email which is a bit complication. It seems for me all such e-mails arrived, so the support in the major mailing tools is probably available.

Could you please bring it to the upstream? And close this with the resolution upstream and link to the upstream ticket. Thanks.

Comment 3 Ben Cotton 2022-05-12 16:39:33 UTC
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Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora Linux 34 on 2022-06-07.
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Comment 4 Ben Cotton 2022-06-08 00:59:33 UTC
Fedora Linux 34 entered end-of-life (EOL) status on 2022-06-07.

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Comment 5 Stewart Smith 2022-06-20 01:24:15 UTC
I submitted a patch upstream to add a `--no-validate-email` option that would solve this issue for you if you did want to skip all forms of email address validation: http://public-inbox.org/git/20220620004427.3586240-1-trawets@amazon.com/T/#u


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