Am I supposed to be unable to have a number less than five in my refresh box in Message Centre now? Because it was still set to three today. I've changed it.

ita did the changes manually, so you might've just been missed.

Fair enough if it was manual manual. But if there was some kind of programmatic "update users set update_time = 5 where update_time < 5" then something went wrong with it, I'd say.

what happens if one of the vars contains a dot itself? I'm sure I'm barking up the wrong tree but it could explain it.

No idea, but as Elena pointed out, it's not just dots so I don't think that's it.

John, I think it's the regexp:

"/^([a-z ]*^<)?([a-z0-9._-])+@([a-z0-9.-])+(\\.)([a-z]{2,4})(>)?$/i"

for checking a valid e-mail address that's choking on name punctuation.

Oh, OK, that makes sense, but why is that checking people's names -- because we're doing them in the form:

John H <johnh@blah.com>

or something?

So just chuck out the nice bit and just reduce it to the bare address is the quick solution.

Yes, that's what we're checking.

I can't read the regexp well enough to know what to toss, though. Just the other modules that'll need to be changed.

I can't read the regexp well enough to know what to toss, though.

Oh I didn't even look at it properly, I see the problem. It's designed to include optional non-email text.

Easy peasy:

[a-z ]

at the start is "a sequence of letters or spaces" so it should be enough just to put in

[a-z.' -]

which I just tested, and matches

P-M.M' Marcontell

which contains all the possible punctuation in people's names, I think.

(There's the underscore....)