Re: Email Verification

From:	Colin Guthrie	Date:	Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:44:40 +0000
Subject:	Re: Email Verification
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Per Jessen wrote:

Lupus Michaelis wrote:
Richard Heyes a écrit :
New domain name extensions can be accounted for easily, eg: \.(?:[a-z]){2,4}
It excludes .museum tld.
Don't make assumptions about which TLDs that are or are not allowed - the domain part of an email address could be validated with this:

and .anythingyouwant now that the TLD space has been opened up....

@[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*(\.[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*)+ A test for total length and valid use of hyphens should be added. See RFC1034. Then look up the A record.

Or better, the MX record... :) Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]