Re: [Nms-cgi-devel] Questions regarding email filter...

[Simon W. <es...@ou...>]

On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 14:34, Wizard wrote:
> Ok, I have some minor issues with email filtering:
> 1.> These are all valid email address:
> Jer...@th...
> J.G...@us...
> Pau...@us...
> Ton...@pm... <- this is valid, but not standard

in...@bl... is valid too. And what is a standard anyway ?

> The problem is that last one with DOMAIN.CC format. Not having a TLD is NOT
> TYPICAL for UK domains (there are only 7), but are there other domains
> similar to this format? This is what I am expecting for international
> emails, and others will presently fail:
> USER_NAME[_W_DOTS*]@CNAMES*.DOMAIN.TLD.CC[:PORT?], an extreme being like
> this:
> ton...@do...:8021 where 'TLD' is required if
> 'CC' is present.
> Is this a problem?

Finland has no second level domain structure. e.g. www.genelec.fi is a
valid domain.
 
> 2.> Do email addresses ever have port numbers appended, like this:
> fr...@fs...:24
> ? Let me know.

Not that I know of but there are a *lot* of ways of expressing comments
and so on in email addresses that you may need to take account of.

> 3.> Are there any US domains that don't look like this:
>     CNAMES*.DOMAIN.TLD[:PORT?]

Do you mean .us domains of G-TLD's like .com and .org ?

Simon.