On 12/28/20 4:52 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 12/28/20 10:37 AM, Bischoop wrote: >> A valid email address consists of an email prefix and an email domain, >> both in acceptable formats. The prefix appears to the left of the @ symbol. >> The domain appears to the right of the @ symbol. >> For example, in the address exam...@mail.com, "example" is the email prefix, >> and "mail.com" is the email domain. > Seems so simple, yet at least half the web sites I try to use get it > wrong. There's an entire RFC on this topic. Drives me crazy when a web > site insists that myaddress+suf...@domain.com is not a valid address. > It certainly is!
Yes, it really is fairly straight forward to do it right, but it does have details that need to be checked carefully (It is significantly harder if the email address can also contain comments or display names, but just a base email address isn't that hard). Many people do still get it wrong. -- Richard Damon -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
