>Checking out valid email addresses is much harder than what you are
>proposing. For instance "Walt Daniels"@nowhere.com is a legal email address.
>You can put lots of foolish characters like blank in if you quote it. You
>need to read the RFC 822 spec.
Thanks for passing on the spec info. I'll certainly review it. At
this point, I'm not very concerned about making the error checking
complete. I don't mind rejecting occasional weird addresses which we
can find manually and are rare anyway, but I do mind false positives.
I'll keep tightening it up and at some point look into a third-party
validation utility.
>
>Most of our problems come from our data entry people "interpretting"
>handwriting. They screw up zeros and ones and other hard to detect typos.
>
>There is a program called "Advanced Email Verifier" that I have played with.
>It takes an address and goes through the first part of the smtp protocol,
>actually contacting the site to see if the address is legal, all without
>sending any actual mail. It doesn't have a programable interface that I can
>find unfortunately, only a GUI. None the less I am thinking of having our
>data entry people cut and paste from ebase into it and verify what they
>type.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jack Noll [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 11:20 AM
>> To: TechRocks Support
>> Subject: [support] Re: email address validation
>>
>>
>> Actually, this is not quite true. Although ebase allows the user
>> to enter
>> an email address that appears to be invalid, it still gets filtered out
>> when you actually create the bulk email. I have no idea why the
>> @#$%# who
>> wrote that routine did it that way! ;>)
>>
>> >Obviously the last criterion is less than complete, since there
>> are many,
>> >many valid suffix strings. It works ok, though, because ebase will allow
>> >the user to enter a "non-standard" address.
>>
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