Steven D'Aprano a écrit :
> On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:11:38 +0200, Christophe wrote:
>> This is useless AND annoying at the same time.
>
> But people like us don't screw up our email address in the first place,
> and if we do, we know how to fix it. Not everybody is like us.
So you say that the bett
> Besides, what is so special with electronic forms that we have to go
> through all kind of tricks to make sure the user doesn't make mistakes
> when regular paper forms just assume the user will be careful when he
> fills it? Must be some kind of IQ draining field emited by all the
> computers wh
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:11:38 +0200, Christophe wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano a écrit :
>> By memory, in an thread about the same topic just a few days ago, Fredrik
>> Lundh posted a link to Perl's FAQs that suggests a method for "validating"
>> email addresses: treat it like a password and ask the user
Christophe wrote:
> Georg Brandl a écrit :
>> Christophe wrote:
>>> Steven D'Aprano a écrit :
By memory, in an thread about the same topic just a few days ago,
Fredrik
Lundh posted a link to Perl's FAQs that suggests a method for
"validating"
email addresses: treat it lik
Frithiof Andreas Jensen wrote:
> For those kind of sites demanding registration for trivial usage (i.e. most
> sites do) I use my own domain controlled by myself - the adress is valid for
> the
> confirmation mail then, after I got what I came for (or after I found out that
> this site was a wast
Steve Holden a écrit :
> Christophe wrote:
>> Steven D'Aprano a écrit :
>>
>>> By memory, in an thread about the same topic just a few days ago,
>>> Fredrik
>>> Lundh posted a link to Perl's FAQs that suggests a method for
>>> "validating"
>>> email addresses: treat it like a password and ask the
Georg Brandl a écrit :
> Christophe wrote:
>> Steven D'Aprano a écrit :
>>> By memory, in an thread about the same topic just a few days ago,
>>> Fredrik
>>> Lundh posted a link to Perl's FAQs that suggests a method for
>>> "validating"
>>> email addresses: treat it like a password and ask the us
Christophe wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano a écrit :
>> By memory, in an thread about the same topic just a few days ago, Fredrik
>> Lundh posted a link to Perl's FAQs that suggests a method for "validating"
>> email addresses: treat it like a password and ask the user to type it
>> twice. That will prote
Christophe wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano a écrit :
>
>>By memory, in an thread about the same topic just a few days ago, Fredrik
>>Lundh posted a link to Perl's FAQs that suggests a method for "validating"
>>email addresses: treat it like a password and ask the user to type it
>>twice. That will protec
Steven D'Aprano a écrit :
> By memory, in an thread about the same topic just a few days ago, Fredrik
> Lundh posted a link to Perl's FAQs that suggests a method for "validating"
> email addresses: treat it like a password and ask the user to type it
> twice. That will protect against simple typos
On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 13:23:03 +0200, Ingo Linkweiler wrote:
>> The usual way to cope with this is sending out confirmation mails. No
>> need to check if the address is syntactically correct beforehand.
>
> yes, I do this allready. But it would be nice to do some checks before
> to avoid wrong us
"Ingo Linkweiler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Bjoern Schliessmann schrieb:
> > Ingo Linkweiler wrote:
> >
> >> b) verify an existing mailserver or DNS/MX records
> >
> > "Or"? That's two different things.
> >
> > If you don't know already: Even if you test all thi
On 24/09/06, Ingo Linkweiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has anyone a function/script to verify an e-mail-address?
>
> It should:
> a) check the syntax
> b) verify an existing mailserver or DNS/MX records
>
b) is problematical.
A domain with MX records may not really have a mail server at all.
Ben Finney wrote:
> I believe Ingo is checking for the case where the user intended to
> enter a valid email address, and made a typing error resulting in
> a trivially invalid one.
Ah. Good intention, but the same applies: Typos in the localpart are
not detectable. Typos in the domain part could
Bjoern Schliessmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ingo Linkweiler wrote:
>
> > yes, I do this allready. But it would be nice to do some checks
> > before to avoid wrong user inputs.
>
> What do you do if the user inputs a "wrong" address? If you reject
> with an error message, the medium intellige
Ingo Linkweiler wrote:
> yes, I do this allready. But it would be nice to do some checks
> before to avoid wrong user inputs.
What do you do if the user inputs a "wrong" address? If you reject
with an error message, the medium intelligent user will enter
something like
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
as next
> The usual way to cope with this is sending out confirmation mails. No
> need to check if the address is syntactically correct beforehand.
yes, I do this allready. But it would be nice to do some checks before
to avoid wrong user inputs.
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In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ingo Linkweiler wrote:
> The script will be used as part auf a user registration page to avoid
> dummy-inputs like "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
The usual way to cope with this is sending out confirmation mails. No
need to check if the address is syntactically correct beforehand.
Bjoern Schliessmann schrieb:
> Ingo Linkweiler wrote:
>
>> b) verify an existing mailserver or DNS/MX records
>
> "Or"? That's two different things.
>
> If you don't know already: Even if you test all this, it is still
> possible that
>
> - the target mail account doesn't exist
> - the sender's
Ingo Linkweiler wrote:
> b) verify an existing mailserver or DNS/MX records
"Or"? That's two different things.
If you don't know already: Even if you test all this, it is still
possible that
- the target mail account doesn't exist
- the sender's IP is filtered by the server so he'll reject
- th
Has anyone a function/script to verify an e-mail-address?
It should:
a) check the syntax
b) verify an existing mailserver or DNS/MX records
ingo
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