Hi,
The . before the @ needs to be allowed. Many email addy's are set that way.
Example, my own admin email address is aba.admin@merchant-solution.com
If I understand correctly, OpenSRS won't accept that addy. NSI does accept
that addy, if that makes any difference in the decision here.
Sincerely,
Todd Sumrall
Authorize.net & Miva Partner
http://www.merchant-solution.com
Merchant Accounts, Web Hosting,
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----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Warner <lww@ictech.net>
To: Joe McDonald <joe@vpop.net>
Cc: <discuss-list@opensrs.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 9:05 PM
Subject: RE: "." before the "@"
> 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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