Yep. The goal here is to indicate to the user that he mistyped his address. For that to work reliably, the validation must accept all valid addresses, not just those that feel more valid then others.
Jörn On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Scott Haneda <talkli...@newgeo.com> wrote: > > Right, this is sort of a long debate, which I see pop up on mailing lists > for email servers. In the end, I think you need to go by the standards. > > Just because hotmail breaks the rules, does not mean you want to punish some > other user who does not use hotmail, just because they use a character in > their email address that hotmail does not. > > On Sep 14, 2009, at 6:04 PM, Sean McKenna wrote: > >> While technically this is correct, a more restrictive approach might >> be preferable because some email services (hotmail for one) will not >> send to an email address using anything other than alphanumerics, >> dots, hyphens, and underscores. > > -- > Scott * If you contact me off list replace talklists@ with scott@ * > >
