From: rtilley <rtilley@...>
Date: 2006-03-08T09:13:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Valid email address from CGI input?

John N. Alegre wrote:
> Brad,  That Perl thing looks like it might be the best thing going and since
> it is mostly regexps I will try a port.  If I get it ill make it available.
> 
> john

Good luck with it John... I think that's about as good as you'll get... 
and it's pretty darn good. He has a web-based validator here that uses 
the same RE:

http://mythic-beasts.com/~pdw/cgi-bin/emailvalidate

Notice his disclaimer:

Mail::RFC822::Address validates email addresses against the grammar 
described in RFC 822 using regular expressions. How to validate a user 
supplied email address is a FAQ (see perlfaq9): the only sure way to see 
if a supplied email address is genuine is to send an email to it and see 
if the user recieves it. The