On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 03:16:47PM -0400, Robert Rivers wrote:
> According to RFC 822, a "." before the "@" is incorrect
> syntax.
>
> However, it's not a big deal and it's not going to break
> anything so we will allow it in the next release.
In general, attempting to "validate" e-mail addresses is a bad idea.
You'd have to go through the whole RFC822 parsing thing, which is
a waste of time, given that virtually anything is a valid e-mail
address if it has an @ in it.
I have this fight on a regular basis because I use an e-mail address
with a "+" in it to track who sells/shares my information. Just
yesterday, I couldn't sign up for an online credit card system because
some fool thought any e-mail address with a non-alphanumeric character
was invalid.
My recommendation is "accept them all, and let the MTA system sort 'em
out".
-- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications chris@netmonger.net info@netmonger.net http://www.netmonger.netFree yourself, free your machine, free the daemon -- http://www.freebsd.org/
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