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Today's Topics:
1. Re: obscure email address formats
(Michael J. Tubby B.Sc. MBCS G8TIC)
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Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:07:11 +0100
From: "Michael J. Tubby B.Sc. MBCS G8TIC" <mike.tubby@thorcom.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] obscure email address formats
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Cc: Martin Barry <marty@supine.com>
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On 26/07/2011 12:47, Martin Barry wrote:
> $quoted_author = "ArkanoiD" ;
>> Is there any good reason to allow email addresses (in smtp, imap and alikes)
>> in any format different from mailbox@fqdn ?
> The other caveat with validating email addresses is with IDN? you now
> need to support unicode in the frontend although your existing regex should
> cope fine with punycode'd FQDNs in the backend.
>
> cheers
> Marty
>
Depends on what you are trying to do...
first.last@fqdn
address%other.address@fqdn
and many other formats are potentially valid, however these should
really be handled in a mail transfer agent such as Exim (www.exim.org)
Mike
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