Re: Re: Email Verification
| From: | Stut | Date: | Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:03:42 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Email Verification | ||
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On 18 Sep 2008, at 09:44, Colin Guthrie wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:An MX record is not required to accept email for a domain. The relevant RFC (can't recall the number right now) states that it should fall back to using the A record if no MX record is present. -Stut -- http://stut.net/Lupus Michaelis wrote:and .anythingyouwant now that the TLD space has been opened up....Richard Heyes a écrit :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:New domain name extensions can be accounted for easily, eg: \.(?:[a-z]){2,4}It excludes .museum tld.@[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... :)