[Email-SIG] Email Address Validator

[Stuart Bishop]

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Matthew Dixon Cowles wrote:

| It's perfectly reasonable for you to limit the email addresses that
| you want your software to accept. But the original poster was posting
| from an organization that's writing an email client and subsequent
| discussion has been about something that might end up in Python's
| standard library. In those cases, I suspect that it would be bad to
| disallow any legal addresses.

I know if I was writing an email client, I would consider it a desirable
feature to handle insane email addresses as any other spam (and if the
authors decide that it is desirable, I suspect they wouldn't want strict
RFC checking anyway since non-RFC complient email addresses you might
want to handle, such as iso-8859-1 encoded usernames, are much more
common than root@[127.0.0.1] etc. Its a practicality versus purity debate.)


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Stuart Bishop <stuart at stuartbishop.net>
http://www.stuartbishop.net/
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