Re: Email Verfication Regular Expression - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Email Verfication Regular Expression
Date
Msg-id 200509132102.47116.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: Email Verfication Regular Expression  (Steve Atkins <steve@blighty.com>)
Responses Re: Email Verfication Regular Expression
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Steve Atkins wrote:
> If you want to validate email addresses you _must_ check the TLD as
> part of the sanity checking, as many of the typos that are
> theoretically detectable are detectable by that check.

Your requirements may be different than mine, but I often make up "fake"
TLDs for testing or even internal subnets in production systems, so
having a system that hardcoded the list of "official" TLDs would be
significantly less useful to me.

--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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