jnet Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 some seem not to know even how to use emails they use www at the beginning of their email:roll: how to stop them? I want to stop http://www.email@emaildomain.com so if some body uses www. they can not go through 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozzie Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 Sorry, but AFAIK http://www.email@emaildomain.com could be a valid email address. Cheers, Ozzie 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bear Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 Yes, it could be used as a valid address, such as "john.smith@" or "s.rogers@" and so on. "www.something@" would be seen simply as a variant of that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railto Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 maybe some people like to use that, as long as its not an offensive name or something like that, or anything like root then we allow any style or type of email address, tho i have never come accross one like that 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonO Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 So.. http://www.joe@blogs.com works the same as joe@blogs.com ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scurrell Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 So.. http://www.joe@blogs.com works the same as joe@blogs.com ? No. It's a completely separate address. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonO Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 I see, when the above posts said a valid email address, I wasn't sure if it still used the actual email address, or considered http://www.joe as the person your sending it to. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bear Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 No, it was meant to say it *could* be a valid address. If the account has a catchall set, either one would work, but they are not interchangeable, just as "me@mydomain" is different from "you@yourdomain". You can have nearly anything before the "@" in use as an email address, as long as your mail server is configured to accept mail sent to it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ur Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 Nearly anything is stretching it, but if people really knew the RFC, we would see a bunch of strange looking email addresses! LOL RFC 2822 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822#section-3.4.1) will tell you what the local user name portion of the email address can contain. It includes all of the following characters (in 3.2.4): A to Z 0 to 9 ! # $ % & ' * + - / = ? ^ _ ` { | } ~ . This RFC says the only restriction is not to start or end the local user name portion with a period. However, the good part is that most large email hosts (99% of them at least) will limit users to A-Z, 0-9, periods(.), hyphens(-) and underscores(_), and most importantly, will force the username to **begin and end** with a letter or number and not allow consecutive symbols. This makes validation way easier. cheers 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ask21900 Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 No. It's a completely separate address. You could get around this by creating a script to auto-create a forwarder for http://www.joe to joe Then email sent to either would go to joe If the problem is with a single address you can just add a forwarder for that one. You do not need a script to create the forwarder, a script would be used just to automate the process. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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