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From: Sandman <mr@sandman.net>
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Subject: Re: What this means "(\w|-)+@\w"?
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:21:07 +0200
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In article <j18h8j$eg3$1@dont-email.me>,
 "Álvaro G. Vicario" <alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX@demogracia.com.invalid> 
 wrote:

> El 02/08/2011 10:06, Sandman escribió/wrote:
> > What's wrong with the PHP built in email validator?
> >
> > <?
> >      if (filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)){
> >          # Do fancy stuff, such as sending fancy email!
> >      }
> > ?>
> 
> For instance:
> 
> var_dump(filter_var('webmaster@álvaro.es', FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL));
> var_dump(filter_var('webmaster@asxn--lvaro-wqa.es', FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL));
> 
> bool(false)
> bool(false)

Is SMTP supposed to support IDN? And even if it's supposed to, what 
SMTP servers correctly parse IDN? I mean, percentage-wise?


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