Re: validating email address
| From: | Justin French | Date: | Thu, 04 Dec 2003 02:49:19 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: validating email address | ||
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On Thursday, December 4, 2003, at 01:35 PM, John W. Holmes wrote:
Blake Schroeder wrote:The only email validation script I've been comfortable with is this: http://www.killersoft.com/downloads/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=5 It's a PHP port of a widely accepted Perl script which (from the comments): // Follows RFC 822 about as close as is possible. // http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc822.html Other than that, yeah I'd just check for "something"@"something with at least one period" Justin FrenchWhats the best way to validate email address (check for white space, check for .com, .net.edu etc)Just check for some text with a single @ in the middle. Honestly... If you're relying on the email any more than that, I'd have to wonder > why. The only way to truly validate an email address is to send an email to it with a code (or webbug) validating the user (or bot) actually received the email.