Re: Checking if email is valid

[Mike Dewhirst via Python-list]

If i wanted an email verifier I would look at open source frameworks and see 
how they do it. Django comes to mind.--(Unsigned mail from my phone)
-------- Original message --------From: Michael Torrie via Python-list 
<python-list@python.org> Date: 3/11/23  07:23  (GMT+10:00) To: 
python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Checking if email is valid On 11/2/23 
00:42, Simon Connah via Python-list wrote:> Basically I'm writing unit tests 
and one of them passess in a string > with an invalid email address. I need to 
be able to check the string > to see if it is a valid email so that the unit 
test passess.If you truly have managed to code an RFC-compliant verifier, I 
commend you.> Valid as in conforms to the standard. Although having looked at 
the> standard that might be more difficult than originally planned.You'll have 
to read the relevant RFCs.  Lots of corner cases!  From whatI can see virtually 
no one on the internet gets it right, judging by thenumber of times I have 
valid email addresses flagged as not valid bypoor algorithms.-- 
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