The only proper way to validate an email address is to transmit a message to it, and have the requestor prove it was received. Every other test is wrong, but the asinine forms that require you to enter your email address twice are the most wrong.
sas On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 9:28 AM Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: > Currently RFC 5322 for addresses in the header and RFC 5321 for addresses > in the envelope, unless you're using international (UTF-8) e-mail. > > I was actually thinking of "validation" of the local part, where some > web developers can't be bothered to read the syntax before deciding what > characters the will consider valid. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
