- Wow! Parallel::ForkManager is awesome. This post was worth a read if for no reason other than to find out about that module.
- Perhaps you could point out where line 232 is... nl can be used to number lines for you.
- I am including an email that I wrote to my IT department here but never sent out. Since you are trying to validate email addresses, you may find it useful:
There is a set of email addresses which are valid, per RFC 2822, call this set A.
The set of email addresses accepted by ISPs is ometimes a proper superset of set A and sometimes a proper subset of set A.
For example, an AOL email address can only contain letters and numbers.
There is no
typo in my last sentence. I am not drunk or otherwise intoxicated. What you
see is
what AOL tech support told me.
Example 2: goto Excite.com sometime when you have nothing to do and choose
an email
address like this: --perlhacker--@excite.com And lo and behold, it works!
Conclusion: so we see that AOL accepts a proper subset of set A and Excite
accepts a
proper superset of set A. I cringe in fear at continuing my investigation
with other ISPs.
Even if an ISP accepts a proper superset of A, that does not mean that a
mail sending
program will send a mail addressed to such an email address...
just see the
email that
bounced after I registered --metaperl--@excite.com... Excite says its fine,
but our ISP's mailer
barfs on it.
This lengthy email is the result of staring at logs of rejected emails
and wondering why people
put certain things in the email field.
We have a slew of people who put
email.@aol.com (a dot
just before the @ sign). We also have a healthy number of janee@yahoo..com
(which is
probably just a spelling error, but you never know). And of course, what
would life be like
without --roy--@excite.com (which is great for good ol' roy, but
unacceptable to certain mailers).
Conclusions
- certain email addresses should never have made it past the input form
- I have no choice but to only accept valid email addresses. Anything
else is playing prophet
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mail Delivery System" <MAILER-DAEMON@lsh144.siteprotect.com>
To: <tbone@directsynergy.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 9:46 AM
Subject: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender
> This is the Postfix program at host s1.mail-out.isp.lax.eggn.net.
>
> I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned
> below could not be delivered to one or more destinations.
>
> For further assistance, please send mail to <postmaster>
>
> If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
> delete your own text from the message returned below.
>
> The Postfix program
>
> <--metaperl--@excite.com>: invalid recipient syntax:
"--metaperl--@excite.com"
>
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