I've raised a Jira for this issue :
I intend to submit a patch that removes this block
if (lastDomain.length != 3 &&
lastDomain.length != 2 &&
lastDomain.length != 4 &&
lastDomain.length != 6)
{
as that seems the smallest change that address' the bug. Having looked
at the validator, it already functions as 'more relaxed'rather than 'to
spec'.
Any objection to that fix ?
Tom
On 22/07/14 17:43, Harbs wrote:
> Here’s a very good reference on the topic:
> http://www.regular-expressions.info/email.html
>
> On Jul 22, 2014, at 6:24 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote:
>
>> We should do both, at some point.
>>
>> On 7/22/14 5:30 AM, "Tom Chiverton" <t...@extravision.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I think we have two choices, either validate to the spec ( RFC 5322,
>>> like http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html ) or use
>>> something more relaxed.
>>>
>>> By more relaxed I mean split('@').length==2 &&
>>> split('@')[1].split('.').length>1
>>> As Wikipedia says "Syntactically correct, verified email addresses do
>>> not guarantee email box existence"
>>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address#Validation_and_verification).
>>>
>>> Much like how the zip/post code validator doesn't tell you if an address
>>> exists or not ?
>>> But would we then have to explain ourselves a lot on users@ ?
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>>> On 22/07/14 13:22, Justin Mclean wrote:
>>>> HI,
>>>>
>>>>> Does any one know why it isn't just using the proper regular
>>>>> expression ?
>>>> Because there is no regular expression that validates all email
>>>> addresses and even if it did they can still be invalid. See [1] for a
>>>> good discussion - and some scary regular expressions.
>>>>
>>>> Justin
>>>>
>>>> 1.
>>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/201323/using-a-regular-expression-to-v
>>>> alidate-an-email-address/1917982#1917982
>>>>
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