test if email

Martin Marcher martin at marcher.name
Fri Oct 12 18:02:18 EDT 2007


2007/10/12, Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com>:
> On 2007-10-12, Florian Lindner <Florian.Lindner at xgm.de> wrote:
>
> > I was just asking for the correct syntax of the mail address. I know about
> > the various problems actually impossibility to test for a live and valid
> > address.
>
> Don't forget to allow uucp style "bang" addresses.  :)

no need to get there most forms won't accept the new top level domains (.name).

No need to speek of plus addressing or older messaging systems.

Heck just check for an "@" and try to deliver it. (if there's no @ you
should know wether it's a local user or not....)

hth
martin

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