El d�a Wednesday, July 13, 2016 a las 04:20:02AM -0700, David Champion escribi�:

> * On 13 Jul 2016, Matthias Apitz wrote: 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Is there some function in mutt's source which validates e-mail addrs?
> > Thanks
> 
> Validates in what sense?
> 

Sorry, I was only thinking in formal validation against RFC 822, ...

> There are parse_address and (more broadly) rfc822_parse_adrlist, which
> will reject or complete certain kinds of malformations based on RFC
> (822, 2822, 5322, etc).  But RFC 5322 et al. are the only things mutt
> cares about, address-wise.  Nothing in mutt tries to anticipate what
> kind of junk ICANN is sunrising next month, or what ISO CC split from
> another ISO CC last year, or whether a given RHS is a valid DNS name or
> has an A/CNAME/MX record, etc.  In short, mutt never makes any effort to
> see that an address is deliverable; only that it conforms the address
> format specification.

Thanks

        matthias

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