Tuesday, June 06, 2000, 1:15:44 AM, Markus wrote:
>> ! isn't listed as a special and I don't think it is a
>> control. So is #, $, %, ^, &, *, -, _, +, =, ', /, ?, \, |, `, ~. So,
>> technically, those can be used for an email address. Sooooo...
> Actually ! may appear in an email address when it denotes a UUCP path
> (a so-called bang path). Also there may be two (or more?) @ signs.
I know, that is why it would be considered a legal portion of the from
field.
> I also know of addresses like (literally) "*@domain.com".
Which is in the above and in the regex I gave.
> This makes it even more complicated to define 'valid email address'.
Which is what I stated from the start.
> Finally, you haven't spent very much thought on defining the domain
> part.
The exercise was to retrieve the local part of the email address, not the
domain. The previous answer given, m/([A-Za-z]*)@/ was very incomplete. I
was providing only a more complex example for technical reasons. :)
> Anybody speak sendmail conf fluently? :)
No. I speak exim.conf just fine. Sendmail has name recognition but is
far from the best solution out there these days. The last I heard Sendmail
still doesn't allow for multiple instances to simultaneously process a single
message. That is bad. I have a mailing list with 220 members on it. With
Exim (and Postfix) I can have my machine deliver up to 50 (or more) of those
addresses at once meaning that particular message sits in my queue for less
time than the serial processing Sendmail seems to require. Now imagine a list
with 220,000 members... Ouch.
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