Re: validating email address "syntax"

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Oh sockets guru, I was waiting for you to pipe up.  :-)

Rob Berendt
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Scott Klement <klemscot@klements.com>
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11/12/2002 02:06 AM
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Instead of checking for a number of characters after the @, why
not just check if it's a valid IP address, and if not, do a DNS lookup?


On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 meovino@estes-express.com wrote:
>
> I mean three characters total including the domain, period and suffix.
So
> an address of a@b.c would pass my test.  yourname@127.0.0.1 should also
> pass my test.  I didn't know that a TLD had to be at least two
characters.
> x.com is registered by PayPal (http://www.samspade.org/t/lookat?a=x.com
),
> so I always thought it was just one.
>
> Basically, I just want to check that there's some sort of TLD after the
@
> and some sort of suffix after the @ (in addition to something before the
> @).
>

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