> 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
In your example address, there are five characters between the '.' and '@'.
Your e-mail address is perfectly valid. Now if your e-mail address was
aba.@merchant-solution.com or admin.@merchant-solution.com, then you would
have an invalid e-mail address, per RFC822.
> 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,
> Free Miva Merchant Shopping Cart
>
> ----- 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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