[Kde-pim] Review Request: Return error when email address ends with '.'

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Wednesday 26 August 2009, Gary Greene wrote:
> On 8/26/09 11:08 AM, "Martin Koller" <kollix at aon.at> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 26 August 2009, Torgny Nyblom wrote:
> >> Check if an email address ends with '.'. If this is the case
> >> return an error. Add unit tests for this as well as for the
> >> "isValidAddressList()" function.
> >
> > I think it is valid that an email address's domain ends with a "."
> > Have a look at RFC 1035
>
> This is legal according to the RFCs since email clients are supposed
> to treat this no differently than DNS clients.

I never came across a domain name ending in '.'. Even if it's valid we 
should still flag this as an error IMO since it is much more likely 
that a user accidentally typed a stray '.' than that he really meant to 
add a trailing '.' to a domain name.



Regards,
Ingo
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