Bug#340404: ITP: libemail-valid-loose-perl -- Email::Valid which allows dot before at mark

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 11:06:32AM +0100, Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy) wrote:
> * Package name    : libemail-valid-loose-perl
>   Version         : 0.04
>   Upstream Author : Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa@bulknews.net>
> * URL             : http://search.cpan.org/~miyagawa/Email-Valid-Loose-0.04/
> * License         : Perl: Artistic/GPL
>   Description     : Email::Valid which allows dot before at mark
> 
>  Email::Valid::Loose is a subclass of Email::Valid, which allows dot (.)
>  before at-mark (@). It is invalid in RFC822,

  $ perl -MEmail::Valid -le 'print Email::Valid->rfc822(q(foo.bar@example.com))'
  1

I think the description needs to be improved; perhaps it means "dot (.)
immediately before at-mark (@)", which *is* invalid in RFC822.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]