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Subject: Re: Bug report nb3 (e-mail address validity checking)
From: Norbert Bollow <nb @ thinkcoach . com>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 10:26:11 +0100
To: tibbs @ hpc . uh . edu
Cc: majordomo-workers @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <ufaiuqlkxy4.fsf@sina.hpc.uh.edu> (message from Jason L Tibbitts III on 12 Feb 1998 02:51:47 -0600)

Jason <tibbs@hpc.uh.edu> wrote:

> NB> Sounds reasonable, but then it'll be important to have the default set
> NB> to "disallow oversized e-mail addresses", [...]
> 
> The code is already done (though not running on the test server, only my
> private server) and disallowing long usernames and hostnames is the
> default:

Great!

> I also added a test to make sure only legal characters show up on the LHS
> ([a-zA-Z0-9.-] and not ^- plus complicated rules about dots) and on the RHS
> (basically [\040-\177] excluding some specials with special quoting rules).
> I don't care what's in the comments because they get stripped anyway.

I assume that you're using a mirror for looking at the e-mail address when
deciding what is LHS and RHS, yes? :-)

-- NB.


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