MENTION processing breaks emails addresses

[buzz]

I reported this a year or so ago, but just wanted to say I still see it happening.

When I try and put an email address in a post, say using a mailto: in a URL tag, the "@" breaks it. The domain in the email is close enough to my username that I guest ENWorld sees it as a MENTION and then wraps BB tags around part of it and thus it fails to work.

Is there any way to force ENWorld not to process these MENTION inserts?

 

[Piratecat]

Yup. I love mention, but this is super annoying. I haven't yet found a way to override it.

 

[Morrus]

I reported the issue to the developers of the product months ago. Their reply? "Not a bug".

So I don't think we're ever going to see a fix for this one. But I do love the functionality; it's a compromise I think we're going to have to live with.

 

[IronWolf]

The mention system is great, very useful to summon people to specific threads. A shame that it breaks some of the email addresses, but as some of the others have noted, it seems a worthy compromise to me.

I wonder if wrapping it in [code][/code] tags at least lets you type it out.

test[MENTION=6682766]test[/MENTION].com

or wrapping in

test[MENTION=6682766]test[/MENTION].com

helps...

EDIT: Wow, even wrapping in noparse tags didn't help.

 

[Morrus]

There's always the slightly inelegant "morrus AT hotmail DOT COM" approach. Not an ideal solution, but at least folks should understand it.

 

[buzz]

Someone needs to punch the developers in the face.

Thanks for the info!

 

[Plane Sailing]

I reported the issue to the developers of the product months ago. Their reply? "Not a bug".

"not a bug"? They've got to be joking! It's pretty clearly unexpected and unintended behaviour!

 

[IronWolf]

You would think the fix would be relatively simple. Just don't trigger when the @ sign is not preceded by a space.

 

[buzz]

You would think the fix would be relatively simple. Just don't trigger when the @ sign is not preceded by a space.

Or when contained within certain BBCode tags.

 

[IronWolf]

Or when contained within certain BBCode tags.

Yep - that would work to - though not sure if everyone wraps an email address within BBCode tags.

I am more sysadminy than developer, but if someone wants to provide the code for the Mentions plug-in I could perhaps suggest a fix. Or maybe someone that is a developer could take a look. I wouldn't think it would be that difficult to clean-up depending on how they are catching the @ sign.