The lack of support for + annoys me, one example is when I was booking train tickets.<div>If you've not come across this, it's a feature of gmail, you can assign extra bits to your email address to ease filtering and know who sold your details! Obviously it still routes to the correct account.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I was able to use christopher+traintickets to register, but when entering my email to confirm the booking I was told that it wasn't a valid address and had to take out the +traintickets bit.</div>
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<br></div><div>just another spanner in the works I guess!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 October 2010 10:40, Andy Warwick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mailing.lists@creed.co.uk">mailing.lists@creed.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On 5 Oct 2010, at 23:30, Martin wrote:<br>
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> Folks,<br>
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> OK, so I thought checking for a valid email address would be easy enough...<br>
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</div>Me too, until I found this in the book Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey E.F. Friedl.<br>
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<<a href="http://examples.oreilly.com/9781565922570/email-unopt.pl" target="_blank">http://examples.oreilly.com/9781565922570/email-unopt.pl</a>><br>
<<a href="http://examples.oreilly.com/9781565922570/email-opt.pl" target="_blank">http://examples.oreilly.com/9781565922570/email-opt.pl</a>><br>
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> I think the best comment there is to do a DNS lookup on the domain and<br>
> let the destination sort out whether the local (recipient) name makes<br>
> sense or not!<br>
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</div>That would probably be easier, yes :)<br>
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