Re: email qualification

> anyone have a quick and dirty checker to validate an email address? This isn't possible to do reliably. There's a big discussion about validating email addresses in "Programming Perl," but it turns out there's no foolproof way to do so, with regular expressions or otherwise. Why not send an email to the address entered with a line saying "Reply with subject: AX19829X" - type thing and verify it that way? Matt -- Matt Spong <spong@baked.net> www.wam.umd.edu/~spong Author and maintainer of PowerShell: powershell.sourceforge.net UM Linux Users Group Secretary/Webmaster: www.umlug.org AIM: Spong1027 ICQ: 74069183 GPG Public Key: finger spong+@glue.umd.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one." -Thomas Jefferson