Checking if email is valid

[Jon Ribbens]

On 2023-11-02, D'Arcy Cain <darcy at Vex.Net> wrote:
> 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.

I remember the good old days when we were able to send email.