If it is an html form, you may want to consider implementing the code as
JavaScript. This is how it was done at the last company I worked for. This
way, the addresses are validated long before they get to the db. This was
also the case for credit card numbers. Also, this moved the processing off
Quite tricky this one...I would imagine there will be a few combinations for
valid email addresses, you could try looking at the World Wide Web
Consortium page www.w3.org, or some similar site for the standards
documents.
HTH
Kev.
hit any user to continue
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Kevin Thomas
Hi
The definition is found in RFC 2822 Internet Message Format
(ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2822.txt)
Oweson Flynn wrote:
Hi,
We have implemented a form that emails reports. The user has to enter his
email address.
However, we are finding that a lot of users are entering incorrect and
If you want a definitive answer, this is it:
http://RFC.net/rfc2822.html
My suggestion would be that you don't actually allow all
valid forms of addressing. The code to check that would
be rather large to say the least, and the testing routine
for it would not be too trivial either.
Jared
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Hi,
We have implemented a form that emails reports. The user has to enter his
email address.
However, we are finding that a lot of users are entering
Title: RE: Code to Validate email addresses
I'd like to make a suggestion for a different approach. I'm thinking of something like a reverse check of the address. Check out this web service (http://beta2.eraserver.net/webservices/mxchecker/) that accepts an email address for validation
