Re: Email::Valid on Win32

I know this isn't your question, chiller, but I'm going to get on my soapbox anyway. IMHO, Email::Valid, while a truly amazing regex, is a bad idea. Rather than repost, take a look at a previous post of mine on this topic.

In short - Email::Valid checks for syntactic validity, and AFAIR can do domain lookups as well, but doesn't at all address the core issue: "Will this address connect me to this person?"
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Re: Re: Email::Valid on Win32 by chiller (Scribe) on Apr 11, 2002 at 18:27 UTC
Thanks. I will probably follow yr advice and just use some stupid regexp. I have implemented one of those validation systems that sends a msg to the email address you entered, so I guess if someone puts in a bad email address, yes, they should be more careful.	[reply]