On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 10:21:46AM +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > Git send-email allows to combine multiple email addresses in one > parameter, e.g. > > --to="a...@example.com, b...@example.com" > > But email addresses may contain commas themselves: > > --to="LASTNAME, firstname <firstname.lastn...@example.com>" > > This may lead to an error:
If the name contains syntactically relevant metacharacters, it can be quoted. So as a workaround, you can do: --to='"LASTNAME, firstname" <firstname.lastn...@example.com>' I think rfc822 actually requires even names with just spaces in them to be quoted, but git-send-email and most other mail programs are pretty lax about allowing just about anything outside of the <>, so people tend not to bother. > If the string preceding a comma is not a valid email address do not > split it off. That might work as a heuristic, though "is a valid email address" is a notoriously hard thing to check. Possibly looking for an "@" would catch most common cases, though. -Peff
