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

[Christopher Joice]

The lack of support for + annoys me, one example is when I was booking train
tickets.
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.

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.

just another spanner in the works I guess!

On 6 October 2010 10:40, Andy Warwick <mailing.lists at creed.co.uk> wrote:

> 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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