email edit

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 09:59:48AM -0500, Nancy Palmquist wrote:
> The discussion makes it clear why it is not possible to make a distinct 
> edit.  Some tuning would have to happen and it would not always work, 
> but like a date edit you could design one for the standard and one for 
> the 2 dot emails and test the email against both, if it passes either it 
>  is a good email address.
> 
> I think the solution is some edits for the various formats and then some 
> processing to see if it complies with any edit.
> 
> Your scope of customers might determine if one would work or you need 
> more depth for global email options.

The other thing that kills people is Germany.

They tend to have insanely long domain names over there; I usually use
50 chars for an email field, and *that's* been too short, at least
once.

Anyone who's *really* serious about this probably ought to pull about
50K email addresses off Usenet over a month, and test their edit
against them.  That's a sufficiently large corpus, I think, to catch
all the corner cases.

Cheers,
-- jra
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