Re: Email data type

From: "Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: "Steve Atkins" <steve(at)blighty(dot)com>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Email data type
Date: 2004-05-17 16:01:05
Message-ID: 03AF4E498C591348A42FC93DEA9661B889FDCF@mail.vale-housing.co.uk
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Atkins [mailto:steve(at)blighty(dot)com]
> Sent: 17 May 2004 16:46
> To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Email data type
>
> a(at)foo(dot)bar is syntactically valid. a(at)foo(dot)invalid is
> syntactically valid, but should be immediately rejected.

I disagree - just because the database server cannot verify the the
existence of a domain does not mean that it isn't valid. I think only
addresses that are syntactically incorrect should be rejected.

Regards, Dave.

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