Checking if email is valid

[Simon Connah]

> Agreed.
> 

> However, with names that are frequently misspelled or which are
> commonly-spelled slightly differently, the 'trick' is to anticipate
> problems and set up aliases which forward messages to the correct address*.
> 

> eg Kelvin -> Kevlin
> 

> Niel, Neal, Neale (etc) -> Neil
> 

> 

> (in the same way that GoodLookingGuy at mydomain -> me,
> 

> or (more likely) MailAdmin -> me)
> 

> 

> 

> * however, this can end-up perpetuating the mistake, rather than
> correcting...
> 

> --
> Regards,
> =dn

I'm not sure that would be practical. As I'm setting up a mailing list server I don't know if someone in the future is going to need to use one of those aliases and testing manually would be tedious.

Simon.
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