ScherBi@BAM.com wrote:
This may be heresy to some folk, but you're probably better off doing this client side, if you are able. The Javascript in Version 4.x and above Netscape (and IE too, I think) has a regular expression engine built in. An re to match all possible valid email addrs could be quite large however: http://enterprise.ic.gc.ca/~jfriedl/regex/email-opt.txt
Or an External Method that verifies against the correct SMTP server that the email exists . An amazing amount of our gretting cards bounce due to bad email addresses. -- Itamar - itamars@ibm.net ---------------------------o----------------------------------------------o Perl/Gimp Greeting Cards | Trust? Ha! The US dollar is backed by ICBMs! | http://www.sealingwax.com | --Anonymous Coward, Slashdot |