Hi,
We have implemented a form that emails reports. The user has to enter his
email address.
However, we are finding that a lot of users are entering incorrect and
invalid email addresses.
Obviously, we can do nothing if they enter an incorrect (but syntactically
correct) email address.
What
Subject: Code to Validate email addresses
Hi,
We have implemented a form that emails reports. The user has to enter his
email address.
However, we are finding that a lot of users are entering incorrect and
invalid email addresses.
Obviously, we can do nothing if they enter
Quite tricky this one...I would imagine there will be a few combinations for
valid email addresses, you could try looking at the World Wide Web
Consortium page www.w3.org, or some similar site for the standards
documents.
HTH
Kev.
hit any user to continue
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Kevin Thomas
Hi
The definition is found in RFC 2822 Internet Message Format
(ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2822.txt)
Oweson Flynn wrote:
Hi,
We have implemented a form that emails reports. The user has to enter his
email address.
However, we are finding that a lot of users are entering incorrect and
If you want a definitive answer, this is it:
http://RFC.net/rfc2822.html
My suggestion would be that you don't actually allow all
valid forms of addressing. The code to check that would
be rather large to say the least, and the testing routine
for it would not be too trivial either.
Jared
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Hi,
We have implemented a form that emails reports. The user has to enter his
email address.
However, we are finding that a lot of users are entering
Title: RE: Code to Validate email addresses
I'd like to make a suggestion for a different approach. I'm thinking of something like a reverse check of the address. Check out this web service (http://beta2.eraserver.net/webservices/mxchecker/) that accepts an email address for validation