How to validate an email address in PHP
I have this function to validate an email addresses: Is this okay for checking if the email address is valid or not?
How can I validate an email address using a regular expression?
The fully RFC 822 compliant regex is inefficient and obscure because of its length. Fortunately, RFC 822 was superseded twice and the current specification for email addresses is RFC 5322. RFC 5322 leads to a regex that can be understood if studied for a few minutes and is efficient enough for actual use. One RFC 5322 compliant regex … Read more
How can I send an email using PHP?
It’s possible using PHP’s mail() function. Remember the mail function will not work on a local server. Reference: mail
How can I validate an email address using a regular expression?
The fully RFC 822 compliant regex is inefficient and obscure because of its length. Fortunately, RFC 822 was superseded twice and the current specification for email addresses is RFC 5322. RFC 5322 leads to a regex that can be understood if studied for a few minutes and is efficient enough for actual use. One RFC … Read more
How to send an email with Python?
I recommend that you use the standard packages email and smtplib together to send email. Please look at the following example (reproduced from the Python documentation). Notice that if you follow this approach, the “simple” task is indeed simple, and the more complex tasks (like attaching binary objects or sending plain/HTML multipart messages) are accomplished very rapidly. For sending email … Read more
Are email addresses case sensitive?
From RFC 5321, section 2.3.11: The standard mailbox naming convention is defined to be “local-part@domain”; contemporary usage permits a much broader set of applications than simple “user names”. Consequently, and due to a long history of problems when intermediate hosts have attempted to optimize transport by modifying them, the local-part MUST be interpreted and assigned … Read more