Hi Joe,
At 03:44 PM 6/15/00 -0700, Joe McDonald wrote:
>I think when Robert answered, he meant to say "right before the @"
>instead of "before the @". He was replying to the message below
>which shows a bad address (according to my interpretation of rfc 822...)
Ahh, yes. I see now. In that case he's quite right. Sorry Robert!
>The OpenSRS check_email_syntax() is doing the right thing as
>far as I can tell, but it will be loosened up to allow some
>bad addresses through because it appears that MTA's out there
>are letting them through and people are using them. :-(
I'm with you on that one. ugh. The problem with letting the bad ones
through is that the syntax checker may no longer catch addresses that
really were typed in wrong and don't work.
> > We have a customer with an e-mail address like mark.o.@foo.net.
> Unfortunately
> > OpenSRS' system does NOT accept this address ...
Good. ;-)
[PS - Joe, I'm going to CC this reply back to the list so that my apology
to Robert goes public. Only fair, since my flame was public...]
--Bill
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