It's not as easy as it seems.
If you take a look at all of the allowable characters for the local part of an email address, the commercial at sign (@) is one of them. That means that an email address like:
first@last@example.com
is a valid email address. If you do the standard explode, you'll get three parts, not two. A typical function would […more]
When I initially wrote the new PHPMailer Pro, the goal was to make it as user friendly as possible. Looking through support requests, many of the new features included detection of the mail server, port, and protocol.
Much of the challenge was around user input of email addresses. Much of the issues were based on:
One aspect of sending emails to a small or large email list is passing the email addresses to the mail transport, like PHPMailer Pro.
PHPMailer Pro handles it nicely with the ability to take email addresses in any of four formats:
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