Checking if email is valid

Ian Hobson hobson42 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 1 23:48:49 EDT 2023


See https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9585?page=0,0

On 01/11/2023 17:09, Simon Connah via Python-list wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm building a simple project using smtplib and have a question. I've been doing unit testing but I'm not sure how to check if an email message is valid. Using regex sounds like a bad idea to me and the other options I found required paying for third party services.
> 
> Could someone push me in the right direction please? I just want to find out if a string is a valid email address.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Simon.
> 
> 

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