Kevin Waterson wrote: > There is no silver bullet regex to validate all RFC compliant email > address. Many have tried, but they all fail at some point. The best > you can do is cater to most _sane_ addresses. > Exactly - the regex is a quick/cheap sanity check, nothing more. To go all the way, you could try doing an SMTP VRFY against the MX for the domain, but it's really taking it a bit too far. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php