Reed O'Brien <r...@koansys.com> added the comment: Working toward a perfect email regex is pretty much a fool's errand.
The colander RE would miss my name reed.o'br...@reedobrien.com :( The formencode one would allow my apostrophe :) but alas both would also allow invalid emails: reed...obrien@, .re...@. Simultaneously both would disallow valid emails: "@ @"@, "shit this is valid?"@. So forth and so on. The whole mess of local atoms aside, the domain.... I am -1 on the proposal to use the formencode RE. There are currently 2 TLDs that are more than 4 characters .travel and .museum. I have never seen anything from them. in fact I have never seen anything from a 4 letter TLD, but I will ignore that for now. In reality the only way to validate an email is to try sending mail to it. I have in the past done domain validation via DNS lookup for an MX record. Alas, most mail systems will fall back to a record of last resort and deliver to an A record or even a CNAME. That however is another mess. The proposed domain RE modification would accept domains like prolly.should.be.an.edu.museum. It will, however, also allow invalid domains such as its.ironic and fuck.ICANN. I think this would allow far more invalid emails than blocking > 4 chars in the domain would reject invalid emails; for now. Besides, you can provide your own validator if you have a special need (say an app that is local only) or it is an app for a .museum. ---------- status: unread -> chatting __________________________________ Repoze Bugs <b...@bugs.repoze.org> <http://bugs.repoze.org/issue172> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Repoze-dev mailing list Repoze-dev@lists.repoze.org http://lists.repoze.org/listinfo/repoze-dev
