Version 18 of Regular expression to validate e-mail addresses

Updated 2002-05-31 11:42:12

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Hello, you should secure your site better! It is editable for everyone (even listed on Google!)

Pertinent Perl stuff:

Don Libes wrote "Authentication by Email Reception" [L1 ] to describe "use of email addresses as an authentication mechanism ... [which] provides reasonable security at very low cost ..."

tcllib / mime contains commands (mime::parseaddress, mostly) to parse email addresses.


But mime::parseaddress fails on simple, common cases. Specifically, it fails for some fairly typical user input:

     [email protected],[email protected]

is OK but mime::parseaddress seems unable to deal with

     [email protected] [email protected]

Then, when I try to stress it and send mail to

     foo<>[email protected]

The parse "succeeds" but the send fails. -- CLN


Please report such things as either bugs or feature requests at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12883 (tcllib trackers)