Re: Registration webforms

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From: Abigail
Subject: Re: Registration webforms
Date: 01:06 on 29 Apr 2004
On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 07:42:50PM -0400, Thomas R. Sibley wrote:
> Abigail wrote on 04/28/04 17:10:
> >I really hate webforms ...
> 
> ...that do email address checking completely wrong.  Usually it means I 
> can't use an email address where the localpart has a + (plus) or a . 
> (dot), which irks me beyond end.


Ah, yes. I remember a site where I used an email address of the form
'$site-name$@xxxxxxx.xx'. They send me an email, where the email has
'site-name@xxxxxxx.xx' in the 'To:' header. But the envelop to was
'$site-name@xxxxxxx.xx'. Of course, that bounced.  It bounced to
'info@xxxxxxxxx.xxx', conforming the headers in the email. That address
didn't exist, so it bounced back to my site.  Where the email finally
did end up in my mailbox, as I'm postmaster. The content of the email
was the biggest surprise. That mentioned the email address I had given.
Correctly.

How they managed to write code that extracts three different, of which
two invalid ones, email addresses from the one given is something I
still have problems believing.


Abigail
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