Re: Legal email addresses for InternetAddress

Chris Burdess <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.classpath.extensions.javamail
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Øyvind Harboe wrote:
> I thought that the line below should throw an exception on *all* 
> illegal
> email addresses:
>
> // this does not throw an exception
> new InternetAddress("ab#surelynotavalidemailaddress##!!!!cdef");

looks like a well-formed (local) address to me. which part are you 
objecting to?

> // this does throw an exception
> new InternetAddress("@asdf");
> new InternetAddress("asdf@");

these are not well-formed.

see rfc 2822, section 3.4 for details.
-- 
Chris Burdess
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