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Over the last two weeks I’ve been working on a new web site. The site started out as a frustration I have with web sites that use email validation scripts to check users email addresses format. What I have noticed is that most email validation scripts check to see if the user name has alpha, alphanumeric or a few other standard characters such as a underscore “_”. Most of the validation scripts do not allow for a plus sign “+” to be in the email address even know a plus is an acceptable character, and one that I use in my email addresses.

After running into two or three site that do not use a validation script that is RFC5322 compliant in one day I decided to start a web site about it. I started to research what was an acceptable email address and found out that the RFC standard pretty much allows any character in the local part of an email address. The local part of the email address is the name or part before the last at symbol “@”. exp local@domain.tld

The site had turned into more then just a place for me to complain about validation script, it had turned into a tool for developers to use. It will check an email address to see if it is RFC5322 compliant, it will also check to see if the email address’s domain is listed on a number of spam blacklists and it will check to see if the email address is listed on forum spam blacklists.
At the moment the site is still in beta so not all functions are avalebe.

and the site is: http://legitimize.me