Re: Email data type

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Bruno Wolff III wrote:

| On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 04:36:55 +0200,
| Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com> wrote:
|
|>The type is indexable and provide also conversion methods:
|>
|>text <--> email
|>and the operator >>, is possible use it in select like:
|
|
| When you are converting between text and email data, what format are the
| text version of the address going to be? For example you might be using
| rfc2821 encoding, rfc2822 encoding or concatenating the local part,
| an @ sign and the domain name. Don't forget about domain literals.

Actually I use <local_part>@<domain_name>

Also the validator will validate emails in this form, if you are thinking to
validate emails as:

"Gaetano M. Public"(junior)<gmendola@(new account)bigfoot.com>

that are perfectly valid I think that it's a valid option to consider.

About the domain literals, I think to validate it in the near future,
rejecting private subnet according to this list:

10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255
172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255
192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255
169.254.0.0 -169.254.255.255

I think I have to discard also the addresses with last octet equal to 256.

Any comments ?

Regards
Gaetano Mendola

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