On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
Whenever I've built code to check someone's email address on a form, I always just looked for the following:
1. matches ^[^@]+@[A-Za-z0-0\-\.]+[A-Za-z]$ 2. The component to the right of the @ sign returns at least one A, AAAA, or MX record.
Hi Owen, If I'm not mistaken, "B@M4N"@delong.com is a legitimately formatted email address which fails part one of your test. Something along the lines of @delong.com;bob@some.private.network is also supposed to be legit though it's been so long since I looked at it that I may have munged the format. No, I don't allow these in systems I've designed either. Just sayin'. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William D. Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com bill@herrin.us 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004