[Email-SIG] Email Address Validator

[Brian Kirsch]

Hi Barry,

I think it would be great to a real world tested Email Address 
Validator in to the library. I have attached a python program
that condenses all the Validator examples I found on the web. This is a 
good starting place although none of the examples return accurate 
results 100% of the time. So there is work to be done :)

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Brian Kirsch - Email Framework Engineer
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On Oct 18, 2004, at 7:12 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 19:51, Brian Kirsch wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I am looking for a robust email address validator written in Python.
>> Can anyone point me in the right direction. Most
>> of the address validators I have found on the web are buggy. They 
>> allow
>> some bad addresses and reject some valid ones.
>
> Mailman has some email validation code in it, but it's not perfect.  I
> think this would be a great thing to add to the library.  Care to post
> some links to what you've found?  Maybe we can combine them into a
> canonical validator module?
>
> -Barry
>