I think overall that those types of e-mail addresses should be allowed. It
doesn't matter if it doesn't go with RFC822 or whatever, because some people
are different. It comes down to: do you want the business, or do you want to
bitch and moan at the client for having a '.' before the '@'? I'd rather
have the business any day!
Justin S...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Gerrard" <bill@daze.net>
To: "Merchant Solutions" <merchant-solution@merchant-solution.com>;
<discuss-list@opensrs.org>
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 1:45 AM
Subject: RE: "." before the "@"
> > 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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