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Re: obscure email address formats


From: Martin Barry <marty () supine com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:47:02 +0200

$quoted_author = "ArkanoiD" ;

Is there any good reason to allow email addresses (in smtp, imap and alikes)
in any format different from mailbox@fqdn ?

The other caveat with validating email addresses is with IDN¹ you now
need to support unicode in the frontend although your existing regex should
cope fine with punycode'd FQDNs in the backend.

cheers
Marty


¹ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name
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