Re: Email Verfication Regular Expression

>>>>> "Cristian" == Cristian Prieto <cristian(at)clickdiario(dot)com> writes:

Cristian> res = res_query(name, C_IN, T_MX, answer, sizeof(answer));

This incorrectly fails if an address has an "A" record but no "MX"
record. According to RFC 2821 Section 5:

The lookup first attempts to locate an MX record associated with
the name. If a CNAME record is found instead, the resulting name
is processed as if it were the initial name. If no MX records are
found, but an A RR is found, the A RR is treated as if it was
associated with an implicit MX RR, with a preference of 0, pointing
to that host.

So, your function will say "no good" if the domain has an A record but
no MX record, even though the RFC says that's OK and deliverable.

Man, is there a lot of bogus knowledge and cargo culting around this
subject!

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