Felix, I believe it does. In fact I did a quick check of both .info and 
.me and they worked fine.

-sunny
http://ezror.com

Felix Schäfer wrote:
> Am 26.09.2010 um 18:54 schrieb Nadal:
> 
>> I am working on a rails3 project. Is there a tool to validate the
>> format of email address. It does not have to be fancy regex. Just a
>> few simple validations. However I don't want to reinvent the wheel?
> 
> Using a regex to validate an email format is in most cases a bad idea, 
> the 2 proposed regexes won't for example recognize quoted local parts, 
> which are valid (e.g. "f...@bar"@rails.info is a valid address). There's 
> a validate_email_format_of plugin on github[1] which works fine on 
> rails2, I think there is a branch/fork for rails3 somewhere too. Another 
> method would be to just drop an EmailValidator into your lib so that you 
> can reuse it at other places in your rails app, have a look at [2] (yes, 
> it still is a regex and only matches what the RFC refers to as 
> "addr-spec" as opposed to a "full" address, but a not-so-bad one).
> 
> Anyway, I'm a little surprised that rails3 having gone from TMail to 
> Mail hasn't added a validator that would re-use the one already present 
> in Mail�
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Felix
> 
> 
> [1] http://github.com/alexdunae/validates_email_format_of
> [2] http://lindsaar.net/2010/1/31/validates_rails_3_awesome_is_true

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