Agreed that it's too restrictive. FWIW we have been using this in production. It was based on careful checking of the various RFCs (though I've just noticed it should also restrict the domain name to 255 characters):
_email_rgx = re.compile(r'^([A-Za-z0-9!#$%&\'*+-/=?^_`{|}~][A-Za-z0-9!#$%&\'*+-/ =?^_`{|}~\.]{0,63}|"[^(\|")]{0,62}")@([a-zA-Z0-9_-])+(\.[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)+$') Seb On 20/10/06, yuppie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi! At the end of RegistrationTool.py is _checkEmail, a function for validating email addresses: http://svn.zope.org/CMF/trunk/CMFDefault/RegistrationTool.py?rev=70840&view=markup AFAICS the checks performed by that function are too restrictive. These are the tests I don't agree with: Test a: characters allowed on local-part: 0-9a-Z-._+' ----------------------------------------------------- RFC 2822 allows a dot-atom with these characters: a-zA-Z0-9.!#$%&'*+-/=?^_`{|}~ At least all these characters should be allowed, even more characters are valid within quoted-strings. Test b: must start or end with alpha or num ------------------------------------------- Why? Can we remove that test? Test c: local-part must end with alpha or num or _ -------------------------------------------------- Why? Can we remove that test? Test e and f: pairs of '.', '-' and '_' not allowed --------------------------------------------------- Why in local-part? Can we limit this to the domain part? Test g: domain must end with '.' plus 2, 3 or 4 alpha ----------------------------------------------------- There are new TLDs like '.museum' with more than 4 characters. Do we need this test? Please let me know if you think I'm missing something. I'd like to fix these issues and move the code to CMFDefault.utils. Cheers, Yuppie _______________________________________________ Zope-CMF maillist - Zope-CMF@lists.zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-cmf See http://collector.zope.org/CMF for bug reports and feature requests
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