Re: E-mail Regular Expression

There are also Mail::CheckUser or Mail::Verify, which can try to check validity on MX (VRFY, RCPT etc.) against Email addresses, rather than RFC822 syntax check that Email::Valid does.

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Re (2): E-mail Regular Expression by RatArsed (Monk) on Jul 30, 2001 at 13:19 UTC
It is worth noting that some servers don't support VRFY; some will be acting as secondary mail servers so may accept all RCPTs for their domains. There are a whole bunch of other conditions; using Email::valid with mxchecking is going to reduce bad addresses by a great deal -- I often find it's easier to use my real address than to try and think of a valid email address... -- RatArsed	[reply]
Re: Re (2): E-mail Regular Expression by miyagawa (Chaplain) on Jul 30, 2001 at 13:44 UTC
You're right. In fact, using VRFY sometimes may be taken for network abuse. Thus, I haven't ever used these modules ... Email::Valid will do :-) -- Tatsuhiko Miyagawa miyagawa@cpan.org	[reply]