Developers of Sympa

[Aumont - Comite Reseaux des Universites <address@concealed>]

Christian perrier reports the following bug :

When defining editor email, spaces at the end of the line are part
of the email editor attribut so all mails coming from this editor
are forward to editors where it should be sent to subscribers.

This bug is part of List::load_admin_file :

the original buggy code :
$* = 1; $/ = '';
...
$user->{'email'} = $1 if (/^\s*email\s+(.+)\s*$/o);


A successful patch I test (but don't understand):

$* = 1; $/ = '';
...
$user->{'email'} = $1 if (/^\s*email\s+(.+)\s*$/o);
$user->{'email'} =~ s/\s*$// ;

Is there any perl guru who can explain that ?