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Re: valid email addresses
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:52:48 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Dan Boger wrote:
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Can we fix the registration form for the newsgroups to require that the
email address provided is actually valid, as far as the RFC goes? At
the very least, require that it will match /.*@.*..*/? The reason is
that SMTP breaks otherwise - see below. The email address Jason is
posting with is “spielboy.at.gmail.dot.com” - which is great - except
that qmail on pair thinks it’s a local address, and adds the
@qs483.pair.com to it.
I’ve seen such errors before, and it’s really confusing. In many cases,
the “From” actually shows as “LUGNET Server” for these emails!
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So is there something I should do?
Jason Spears | BrickCentral | MichLUG | CLB
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) Dan: You might want to decode that regular expression into english for those not regexp literate, since you're publicly asking for a change. I THINK it means at least one @ and at least one "." that is at least one character after the at sign, (...) (20 years ago, 27-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: valid email addresses
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| (...) I didn't mean to specifically point you out, Jason - if you want to change your registration, I'm sure Larry would be happy to help though. On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 03:17:09PM +0000, Larry Pieniazek wrote: (...) Actually, it was saying anything (...) (20 years ago, 27-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| Can we fix the registration form for the newsgroups to require that the email address provided is actually valid, as far as the RFC goes? At the very least, require that it will match /.*@.*\..*/? The reason is that SMTP breaks otherwise - see (...) (20 years ago, 27-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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