[Nottingham] Just how complicated can email addresses be?!

[Andy Warwick]

On 5 Oct 2010, at 23:30, Martin wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> OK, so I thought checking for a valid email address would be easy enough...

Me too, until I found this in the book Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey E.F. Friedl.

	<http://examples.oreilly.com/9781565922570/email-unopt.pl>
	<http://examples.oreilly.com/9781565922570/email-opt.pl>

> I think the best comment there is to do a DNS lookup on the domain and
> let the destination sort out whether the local (recipient) name makes
> sense or not!

That would probably be easier, yes :)

Cheers

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