[OT]Mail::* Perl modules to validate email address (RFC822)

2000-08-14 Thread martin langhoff
hello, sorry for the OT, but I guess/hope the knowledge I'm looking for is not completely unrelated to this particular list, and I'm not aware of any Perl-email related mailing list. I'm trying to validate an email address as per RFC822, and, even though I've seen a lot of

Re: [OT]Mail::* Perl modules to validate email address (RFC822)

2000-08-14 Thread Russ Allbery
martin langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to validate an email address as per RFC822, and, even though I've seen a lot of quick'n'dirty regexps to do so, I'd like to use actually RFC compliant code, known to work. Right now I'm perusing the Mail::* modules (docs and code), just

Re: [OT]Mail::* Perl modules to validate email address (RFC822)

2000-08-14 Thread Magnus Bodin
On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 12:31:07PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: martin langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to validate an email address as per RFC822, and, even though I've seen a lot of quick'n'dirty regexps to do so, I'd like to use actually RFC compliant code, known to work.

Re: [OT]Mail::* Perl modules to validate email address (RFC822)

2000-08-14 Thread martin langhoff
list, silly me. read the faqs first! perlfaq9 tells me I cannot validate emails in such a way, and points to a possible (but imperfect) approach by t.christiansen. off I go, to see if that's useable. sorry for everybody's time and bandwidth. martin pd: I did

Re: [OT]Mail::* Perl modules to validate email address (RFC822)

2000-08-14 Thread martin langhoff
Magnus Bodin wrote: Doesn't Mail::RFC822 have validation code? I thought it did. No, but Mail::Address [1] or RFC::RFC822::Address [2] are you sure? I've been looking at Mail::Address and found nothing in its code that hinted of ay validation. It looked like an 'address

Re: [OT]Mail::* Perl modules to validate email address (RFC822)

2000-08-14 Thread Magnus Bodin
On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 08:04:48PM -0300, martin langhoff wrote: Magnus Bodin wrote: Doesn't Mail::RFC822 have validation code? I thought it did. No, but Mail::Address [1] or RFC::RFC822::Address [2] are you sure? I've been looking at Mail::Address and found nothing