Re: Adding Email Validity Test to the existing script.

You make a big mistake if you think an email address only contains a @ sign, and only letters, numbers, dashes or periods. Any ASCII character can occur in an email address. And a surprising number of them don't need to be escaped or quoted.

Abigail

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Re: Re: Adding Email Validity Test to the existing script. by tbone1 (Monsignor) on Jun 30, 2003 at 12:54 UTC
In fact, you can even have more than one @ sign, believe it or not. IUPUI is an Indiana/Purdue campus here in downtown Indianapolis. It is now so big that it has its own branch campus (everyone following this?), IUPUI at Columbus, which translates to "iupui@c.edu". An e-mail account there could be "smith@iupui@c.edu" (I should point out that this was true at one time, about ten years ago; it may well have changed in the interim.) -- tbone1 Ain't enough 'O's in 'stoopid' to describe that guy. - Dave "the King" Wilson	[reply]
Re: Adding Email Validity Test to the existing script. by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jun 30, 2003 at 13:51 UTC
This is called address routing. A valid syntax, but many MTA's no longer honour this - it's a bit too spammer friendly. But `\@@abigail.nl` [download] is an email address with a valid syntax. Abigail	[reply] [d/l]