Also, I found an online link to the JavaMail 1.3 changes doc. See "5. Support parsing "illegal" Internet addresses "
http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/JavaMail-1.3-changes.txt Niall ----- Original Message ----- From: "Niall Pemberton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 12:23 AM Subject: Re: [email] Commons-Email -- not J2EE 1.3? > Sorry, I missed a bit, along with the method/contructor with the new strict > flag, they say.... > > "To allow applications to check the syntax of addresses the might've been > parsed with the strict flag set to false, we add a validate method" > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Niall Pemberton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 11:54 PM > > > > In JavaMail 1.2 you had no choice over how "strict" in checking the RFC822 > > syntax of an email address was - whether you used the static parse() > method > > or the InternetAddress constructor to create a new InternetAddress object. > > > > In JavaMail 1.3 flavours of the parse() method and InternetAddress > > constructor were added with a "strict" flag so that there was the option > of > > creating InternetAddress without strictly enforcing RFC822 syntax - the > > reason being, in their words "To better support the range of "invalid" > > addresses seen in real messages". > > > > Commons Email is however not constructing InternetAddress with an argument > > of strict=false and therefore I believe the use of the validate() method > is > > completley spurious - since its going to throw any AddressExceptions when > > the InternetAddress objects are constucted. I believe you could just > remove > > the line calling the validate() method in the > Email.createInternetAddress() > > method with no difference in behaviour. > > > > One other point - there don't appear to be any tests of invalid email > > addresses in TestEmail. If there were, it would be easy to verify this. > > > > Niall > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Stephen Colebourne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Jakarta Commons Users List" <commons-user@jakarta.apache.org> > > > > > > > Asleson, Ryan wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I just tried using Commons-Email RC5 on WebLogic 8.1. When using the > > Email.addTo method, I receive a NoSuchMethodError. > > > > > > > > It appears that the Email class is attempting to use > > InternetAddress.validate(), which is part of J2EE 1.4, not 1.3. Since I'm > > using WebLogic 8.1, which is only J2EE 1.3, it looks like I'm stuck. > > > > > > > > Is there any way around this? > > > > > > This sounds like something that should be fixed. Not sure what the > > > alternative to this method is though... > > > > > > Stephen > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
