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From: "Niall Pemberton" <niall.pemberton@blueyonder.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [email] Commons-Email -- not J2EE 1.3?
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 00:23:17 +0100
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Sorry, I missed a bit, along with the method/contructor with the new strict
flag, they say....

"To allow applications to check the syntax of addresses the might've been
parsed with the strict flag set to false, we add a validate method"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Niall Pemberton" <niall.pemberton@blueyonder.co.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 11:54 PM


> In JavaMail 1.2 you had no choice over how "strict" in checking the RFC822
> syntax of an email address was - whether you used the static parse()
method
> or the InternetAddress constructor to create a new InternetAddress object.
>
> In JavaMail 1.3 flavours of the parse() method and InternetAddress
> constructor were added with a "strict" flag so that there was the option
of
> creating InternetAddress without strictly enforcing RFC822 syntax - the
> reason being, in their words "To better support the range of "invalid"
> addresses seen in real messages".
>
> Commons Email is however not constructing InternetAddress with an argument
> of strict=false and therefore I believe the use of the validate() method
is
> completley spurious - since its going to throw any AddressExceptions when
> the InternetAddress objects are constucted. I believe you could just
remove
> the line calling the validate() method in the
Email.createInternetAddress()
> method with no difference in behaviour.
>
> One other point - there don't appear to be any tests of invalid email
> addresses in TestEmail. If there were, it would be easy to verify this.
>
> Niall
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Stephen Colebourne" <scolebourne@btopenworld.com>
> To: "Jakarta Commons Users List" <commons-user@jakarta.apache.org>
>
>
> > Asleson, Ryan wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I just tried using Commons-Email RC5 on WebLogic 8.1. When using the
> Email.addTo method, I receive a NoSuchMethodError.
> > >
> > > It appears that the Email class is attempting to use
> InternetAddress.validate(), which is part of J2EE 1.4, not 1.3.  Since I'm
> using WebLogic 8.1, which is only J2EE 1.3, it looks like I'm stuck.
> > >
> > > Is there any way around this?
> >
> > This sounds like something that should be fixed. Not sure what the
> > alternative to this method is though...
> >
> > Stephen
>
>
>
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