Re: Email Verfication Regular Expression

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Steve Atkins <steve(at)blighty(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Email Verfication Regular Expression
Date: 2005-09-13 19:02:46
Message-ID: 200509132102.47116.peter_e@gmx.net
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Steve Atkins wrote:
> If you want to validate email addresses you _must_ check the TLD as
> part of the sanity checking, as many of the typos that are
> theoretically detectable are detectable by that check.

Your requirements may be different than mine, but I often make up "fake"
TLDs for testing or even internal subnets in production systems, so
having a system that hardcoded the list of "official" TLDs would be
significantly less useful to me.

--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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