WordPress MU

1. jmasson
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi,

   I'm wanting to allow distribution lists to be created as users in my WPMU install to do do email notifications to a number of users on new posts.

   The notification stuff is working great with the Subscribe2 plugin, but I've hit a snag in that some of the distribution lists have an ampersand (&) character in them... Wordpress appears to convert this to 'amp' so presumably email notifications won't be received...

   I say 'presumably' because I don't want to test by mailing a heap of people with one of these lists ;) but it doesn't look like wordpress has 'escaped' the &, how would it know to turn amp into that, what if my email really was amp@xyz.com...

   So has anyone dealt with this and can advise a way around? My first thought is to just put the & back in the db, but I don't know if that will break queries made on the field as I am unsure of the level of escaping done on queries...

   Thanks,
   JM

2. SteveAtty
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   That's going to be down to the sanitize email function which I think is core WordPress.

   If you need this to be done, and not have to change your code every time then you'd need to raise it in Trac.

   "&" in email addresses is really a "Maybe" as they are not excluded in the formal spec for email addresses but neither are the actually included.

3. jmasson
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Yeah a pretty grey area I agree!!

   I've been able to get alias addresses setup for the offending addresses so I'm going to settle on that as a much more supportable option rather than hacking Wordpress core as you say...

   Thanks for the reply!

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