Subj : emailval.js accepts incomplete email addresses
To   : Codefenix
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Sep 04 2024 10:05 pm

  Re: emailval.js accepts incomplete email addresses
  By: Codefenix to echicken on Sun Sep 01 2024 09:51 am

 >   Re: emailval.js accepts incomplete email addresses
 >   By: echicken to Codefenix on Sat Aug 31 2024 09:05 pm
 >
 >  ec> If you *really* want to check if an email address is valid, then
 >  ec> there's a whole rabbit hole of standards and regex fun you can go down.
 >  ec> I have to wonder why/if this is even necessary in the context of email
 >  ec> validation. If the email address is fucked, then the user will not get
 >  ec> validated. If they want to gain access, they'll need to supply a
 >  ec> working address. Sort of a self-solving problem right?
 >
 > No, not quite. I must not have made it very clear in my initial post. The
 > reason why I would want to "pre-validate" an email address is because
 > someone entered an incomplete one on my system (user@gmail), and it broke
 > the script because the script (incorrectly) treated the entry as though it
 > were a QWKmail address. This let the user skip validation and proceed to
 > main, when it should have screened them out instead.

I don't think that's how that script works though. It doesn't "screen people out" (that provide an invalid email address).
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