[Solar-talk] ValidateEmail filter

[Jeff Surgeson]

> > > Is there a reason why validateEmail() filter no longer forces the domain
> > > part to include a dot com or dot whatever. When it was part of
> > > Solar_DataFilter it did but now not. 

> > If I remember correctly the .domain part is not a requirement in an email
> > address. But I think that a dot at the end is invalid per the email spec.
> > I could be wrong.
> >
> > Robert

> I would agree. If there a period after the hostname it must be followed by
> a suffix (com, edu, etc). Forcing the suffix is not entirely a good idea if
> you have email addresses like rkolbe at localhost and that is it (or something
> to that extent).

Maybe I am missing something here, in my rather small world if you attempted 
to send an email with x at x and no TLD it would not be accepted by any mail 
server other than a local intranet or network as far as I am aware. And in my 
humble opinion the reason to validate it is to make sure it is a valid usable 
email address that can be used to send and receive email, attempting to send 
to x at x will fail. So I would say forcing it to validate for the full 
domainname made up of SLD and TLD is important.

In all the email validation stuff I have looked at, and solar email filter 
used to do this as well, it would validate for a minimum of 5 characters, in 
the format of: x at x.x

This being the shortest possible and still valid email address, so the 
question still remains, Solar email filter used to validate it for x at x.x but 
no longer does.

Is there a reason it was removed that I am not aware of?
Or am I just missing the plot?

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