Posted by "M. Sokolewicz" on 10/21/62 11:27

Gustav Wiberg wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "joshua may" <notjosh@gmail.com>
> To: <php-general@lists.php.net>
> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 9:50 AM
> Subject: [PHP] Re: Mail-format...
>
>
>> I was having the same issue with one of my clients just today in fact.
>> We just filtered the email addresses to ensure they're valid. There's
>> a million regex's out there to do this for you..
>>
>> Cheers
>> Josh
>>
>> Gustav Wiberg wrote:
>>
>>> Hi there!
>>>
>>> I wonder why I get get these kind of mails (look down below in this
>>> mail) I recieve them sometimes...
>>> ...I have a code like this...
>>>
>>> $name = $_POST["frmNamn"];
>>> $email = $_POST["frmEpost"];
>>>
>>> //Send mail that there is a new member
>>> //
>>> mail("info@stammis.com","Ny medlem - Stammis Internet","Namn: $name,
>>> Epost:$email");
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> /G
>>> http://www.varupiraten.se/
>>>
>>>
>>> Namn: wftmbsbwas@stammis.com
>>> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"===============0158601545==\"
>>> MIME-Version: 1.0
>>> Subject: c1805938
>>> To: wftmbsbwas@stammis.com
>>> bcc: PeiCanteenMc@aol.com
>>> From: wftmbsbwas@stammis.com
>>>
>>> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
>>>
>>> --===============0158601545==
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"us-ascii\"
>>> MIME-Version: 1.0
>>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>>>
>>> aienglpcm
>>> --===============0158601545==--
>>> , Epost:wftmbsbwas@stammis.com
>>>
>>>
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> Hi there!
>
> A million? Have you done the count? ;-) *just joking*
>
> Thanx!
>
> /G
> http://www.varupiraten.se/

No counting, but I'm pretty sure there's more than a million ;p
Every php (wanna-be) dev creates a regexp for email-validation at some
point (or even more than one). So I'm pretty sure there's *tons* of them
(and that means billions, and probably more). Unless you want unique
regexps, which brings it down to quite a lot less ;p

- tul

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