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Re: obscure email address formats
From: "Michael J. Tubby B.Sc. MBCS G8TIC" <mike.tubby () thorcom co uk>
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:07:11 +0100
On 26/07/2011 12:47, Martin Barry wrote:
$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 IDNĀ¹ 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
Depends on what you are trying to do... first.last@fqdn address%other.address@fqdnand many other formats are potentially valid, however these should really be handled in a mail transfer agent such as Exim (www.exim.org)
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