[geeklog-devel] FW: email validation

[Dwight Trumbower]

To the best of my knowledge domains can only have letters, numbers and 
hypens. There are hosting services that want  you to use a + between you 
name and domain for accessing email but it is not valid to send a email in 
that format.

Dwight

At 11:37 AM 2/18/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>Is this true or false?  I'm pretty sure it doesn't work, but is a '+'
>legal in an email address?
>
>-rob.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kevin Scaldeferri [mailto:kevin at scaldeferri.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 11:33 AM
>To: webteam2 at macosxhints.com
>Subject: email validation
>
>
>Your website's email validation for new user registration does not
>appear to accept "+" as a valid character in an email address.   This is
>
>an error.
>
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Dwight
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