John Machin wrote: ... > A little more is unfortunately not enough. The best advice you got was > to use an existing e-mail address validator.
We got bitten by this at the last place I worked - we were using a regex email validator (from Microsoft IIRC), and we kept having problems with specific email addresses from Ireland. There are stack of Irish email addresses out there of the form paddy.o'[EMAIL PROTECTED] - perfectly valid email address, but doesn't satisfy the usual naive versions of regex validators. We use an even worse validator at my current job, but the feeling the management have (not one I agree with) is that unusual email addresses, whilst perhaps valid, are uncommon enough not to worry about.... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
