To my surprise, an valid email address preceding the @ becomes disqualifiied by Email::Valid when a . is appended to it. Why would that make an email invalid?

code

use Email::Valid;
use strict;

sub check {

    my $o = shift;
    my $address = shift;

    print "email $address is ";
    print ($o->address($address) ? '' : 'not');
    print " valid\n";


}

my @address = qw(

         jim@mail.com
         jim.@mail.com
         jim.beam@mail.com
         .jim@mail.com
         jim-@mail.com
         -jim@mail.com

);

my $ev = Email::Valid->new;

check ($ev,$_) for @address;

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results


[tbone@horse1 email-valid]$ perl ev.pl
email jim@mail.com is  valid
email jim.@mail.com is not valid
email jim.beam@mail.com is  valid
email .jim@mail.com is not valid
email jim-@mail.com is  valid
email -jim@mail.com is not valid
[tbone@horse1 email-valid]$

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<address></address> Last modified: Wed Aug 20 15:43:59 PDT 2003 </body> </html>

In reply to Email::Valid appears to disqualify valid email addresses by princepawn

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