#!/usr/bin/perl # # Function to reject bogus email addresses # package LJ; sub check_email { my ($email, $errors) = @_; # Trim off whitespace and force to lowercase. $email =~ s/^\s+//; $email =~ s/\s+$//; $email = lc $email; my $reject = sub { my $errcode = shift; my $errmsg = shift; # TODO: add $opts to end of check_email and make option # to either return error codes, or let caller supply # a subref to resolve error codes into native language # error messages (probably via BML::ML hash, or something) push @$errors, $errmsg; return; }; # Empty email addresses are not good. unless ($email) { return $reject->("empty", "Your email address cannot be blank."); } # Check that the address is of the form username@some.domain. my ($username, $domain); if ($email =~ /^([^@]+)@([^@]+)/) { $username = $1; $domain = $2; } else { return $reject->("bad_form", "You did not give a valid email address. An email address looks like username\@some.domain"); } # Check the username for invalid characters. unless ($username =~ /^[^\s\",;\(\)\[\]\{\}\<\>]+$/) { return $reject->("bad_username", "You have invalid characters in your email address username."); } # Check the domain name. unless ($domain =~ /^[\w-]+(\.[\w-]+)*\.(ac|ad|ae|aero|af|ag|ai|al|am|an|ao|aq|ar|arpa|as|at|au|aw|az|ba|bb|bd|be|bf|bg|bh|bi|biz|bj|bm|bn|bo|br|bs|bt|bv|bw|by|bz|ca|cc|cd|cf|cg|ch|ci|ck|cl|cm|cn|co|com|coop|cr|cu|cv|cx|cy|cz|de|dj|dk|dm|do|dz|ec|edu|ee|eg|er|es|et|fi|fj|fk|fm|fo|fr|ga|gb|gd|ge|gf|gg|gh|gi|gl|gm|gn|gov|gp|gq|gr|gs|gt|gu|gw|gy|hk|hm|hn|hr|ht|hu|id|ie|il|im|in|info|int|io|iq|ir|is|it|je|jm|jo|jp|ke|kg|kh|ki|km|kn|kr|kw|ky|kz|la|lb|lc|li|lk|lr|ls|lt|lu|lv|ly|ma|mc|md|mg|mh|mil|mk|ml|mm|mn|mo|mp|mq|mr|ms|mt|mu|museum|mv|mw|mx|my|mz|na|name|nc|ne|net|nf|ng|ni|nl|no|np|nr|nu|nz|om|org|pa|pe|pf|pg|ph|pk|pl|pm|pn|pr|pro|ps|pt|pw|py|qa|re|ro|ru|rw|sa|sb|sc|sd|se|sg|sh|si|sj|sk|sl|sm|sn|so|sr|st|su|sv|sy|sz|tc|td|tf|tg|th|tj|tk|tm|tn|to|tp|tr|tt|tv|tw|tz|ua|ug|uk|um|us|uy|uz|va|vc|ve|vg|vi|vn|vu|wf|ws|ye|yt|yu|za|zm|zw)$/) { return $reject->("bad_domain", "Your email address domain is invalid."); } if ($domain =~ /spam/) # to avoid spam.su and suchlike { return $reject->("bad_domain", "Your email address domain is invalid."); } # Catch misspellings of hotmail.com if ($domain =~ /^(otmail|hotmial|hotmil|hotamail|hotmaul|hoatmail|hatmail|htomail)\.(cm|co|com|cmo|om)$/ or $domain =~ /^hotmail\.(cm|co|om|cmo)$/) { return $reject->("bad_hotmail_spelling", "You gave $email as your email address. Are you sure you didn't mean hotmail.com?"); } # Catch misspellings of aol.com elsif ($domain =~ /^(ol|aoll)\.(cm|co|com|cmo|om)$/ or $domain =~ /^aol\.(cm|co|om|cmo)$/) { return $reject->("bad_aol_spelling", "You gave $email as your email address. Are you sure you didn't mean aol.com?"); } # Catch web addresses (two or more w's followed by a dot) # elsif ($username =~ /^www*\./) # { # return $reject->("web_address", # "You gave $email as your email address, but it looks more like a web address to me."); # } } 1;