Checking if email is valid

[D'Arcy Cain]

On 2023-11-01 17:17, Chris Angelico via Python-list wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Nov 2023 at 08:09, Grant Edwards via Python-list
> <python-list at python.org> wrote:
>> Make sure it has an '@' in it.  Possibly require at least one '.'
>> after the '@'.
> 
> No guarantee that there'll be a dot after the at. (Technically there's
> no guarantee of an at sign either, but email addresses without at
> signs are local-only, so in many contexts, you can assume there needs
> to be an at.)

druid!darcy - doesn't work any more but not because it is syntactically 
incorrect.

Remember the good old days when we were able to test if an address 
existed without sending?  That was before the black hats discovered the 
Internet.

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D'Arcy J.M. Cain
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