Re: email/SMTP validation

Scott, I didn't mean to call the quality of your article in to question.

Scott Klement wrote:

If you look over my article again, you'll see that I tried to address situations like that by stating the following:

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There are some caveats with most regular expressions used for validating e-mail, including the one that I'm about to demonstrate. Please read the following Web site for details about this regular expression, including the caveats:
http://www.regular-expressions.info/email.html

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I appreciate the fact that you dealt with the issue, and I should have mentioned that in the first place. However, I think that the case I gave may be more commonly used now than when the site you reference was written. The author says "[m]ost software and even domain name registrars, however, still stick to the 37 characters they're used to," which I think is a bit out of date, at least on the software side.

I've run into that particular restriction often enough that I thought it was worth mentioning, as I think that similar schemes are employed by a relevant number of users.