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Discussion on: Properly validating e-mail addresses

 
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tux0r • Edited

Hazardous, but rule-compliant. libvldmail has a compiler flag for that, so you could make it reject them if needed.

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Pert Soomann

Yeah, beyond just pure technical ability to validate email address against rules, it's a weird one on so many levels:

theguardian.com/technology/2017/ap...

Can see pros and cons which ever way you go, tho having a dedicated library does help with faster updates over built in functions that might take years to release next version.