[AccessD] email validation

Hi Stuart

This is a good and valid point.

One purpose is to validate a typed input or a table with addresses for typing errors and malformatted strings.

Another is to validate a real-life e-mail address. This is extremely slow compared to string validation and may - as noted - fail for many other reasons than typing errors. Thus, your purpose for validating the address must be clearly defined and so must the actions to be taken in case of an error. These will be different for, say, the situation where you wish to send an email _now_ and the situation where you wish to send something to this address some day in the future; in this case you could wait for a response (accept) from the mail server for the usual up to 48 hours.

/gustav

>>> stuart at lexacorp.com.pg 08-01-2006 23:52:11 >>>
Are we talking about code to determine whether the format of a particular 
string is valid as an email address or whether  a particular email address 
resolves to a real mailbox?