rfc-822

Implementation of RFC-822

Features

Validates RFC-822 Addresses

More usefully, it validates the addr_spec portion of the addresses

Examples

Validate an address as per the RFC

RFC822.validate('[email protected]')

Validate an address per the addr_spec portion of the RFC

This is what most people actually expect in an address

RFC822.validate_addr('[email protected]')

A note on the RFC

RFC 822 has some oddities, it does things most people don't expect, such as

  • It does not validate domains
  • It supports groups, multiple labeled lists of addresses. ex: MyGroup: "John Higgins" [email protected], mark [email protected];
  • It supports routes, a sequence of mailservers the message is supposed to travel. ex: test@[email protected]
  • It support sdouble quoted strings as the local part of an address, with crazy chars in them. ex: "my@funkyaddress"@example.net
  • It supports phrases before angle bracketed addresses. ex: "Test" [email protected].

Authors

Evan Phoenix (evanphx) Andrew Cholakian (andrewvc)

License

(The MIT License) FIXME (different license?)

Copyright (c) 2011 FIXME (author's name)

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