Checking if email is valid

[avi.e.gross at gmail.com]

Chris,

I don't mean anything specific in the abstract approach I outlined as a
possible alternative to using one complex regular expression.

My suggestion was that some of the work could be done by the module you used
and THEN you may test various parts of the rest. For example, perhaps
another module lets you test if the domain name is registered. I have not
read the RFC and have not worked on email applications in decades and am not
offering specific advice. I am merely suggesting the possible use of
existing software modules that may provide a better approach in weeding out
SOME bad addresses.

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Subject: Re: Checking if email is valid

On Fri, 3 Nov 2023 at 12:21, AVI GROSS via Python-list
<python-list at python.org> wrote:
> My guess is that a first test of an email address might be to see if a
decent module of that kind fills out the object to your satisfaction. You
can then perhaps test parts of the object, rather than everything at once,
to see if it is obviously invalid. As an example, what does
user at alpha.......com with what seems to be lots of meaningless periods, get
parsed into?
>

What do you mean by "obviously invalid"? Have you read the RFC?

ChrisA
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