Bug 16695 - Email checks are not strict enough..
Summary: Email checks are not strict enough..
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Web Site
Classification: Red Hat
Component: Join_Process
Version: current
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tom Lancaster
QA Contact: Paul Lindner
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-08-21 21:23 UTC by Paul Lindner
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:28 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-08-21 21:24:25 UTC
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Description Paul Lindner 2000-08-21 21:23:16 UTC
I'm getting a bunch of bounced messages when users enter bad email
addresses.

We should do stricter checking.  Email::Valid supports this.

We need to install Net::DNS, and we need to modify the join callback and
the formmail callback to use the new Email::Valid features..

Comment 1 Paul Lindner 2000-08-21 21:24:22 UTC
Tom, can you have a crack at this.  Should be simple...


Comment 2 Tom Lancaster 2000-08-28 20:32:09 UTC
This is done as requested. The Net::DNS modules are in cvs under lib/
I've implemented the checks by adding the parameter 'mxcheck => 1' to the
Email::Valid->address
call in join/callback.apm.

Please note that I'm not sure how much of a good idea this is, because it
*significantly* slows response time when the user submits.

This is not live yet, just on webdev.


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