Hi all, A hoary old chestnut this - any advice on how to syntactically validate an email address? I'd like to support both the display-name-and-angle-bracket and bare-address forms, and to allow everything that RFC 2822 allows (and nothing more!).
Currently, i've got some regexps which recognise a common subset of possible addresses, but it would be nice to do this properly - i don't currently support quoted pairs, quoted strings, or whitespace in various places where it's allowed. Adding support for those things using regexps is really hard. See: http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html For a level to which i am not prepared to stoop. I hear the email-sig are open to adding a validation function to the email package, if a satisfactory one can be written; i would definitely support their doing that. tom -- Women are monsters, men are clueless, everyone fights and no-one ever wins. -- cleanskies -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
