Duaine -- ...and then Duaine Hechler said... % % Is there any email service that check email address format validation (IE: % gmail) ? In short, that's a pretty messy problem that depends heavily on your definitions of "check" and "validation" :-) % % I know AT&T don't, I keep getting this in the FROM field ......... % % ~~Super Slim Secret~~ <AT&TAppsBeta@att.sbc.bellsouth.juno.in@> If the '@>' at the end is really there, then yes that's bogus, because at least you can only have one '@' (or so I think; you could have multiple ! and % chars, but only one @). But if that's not really there, then I could definitelyl believe that Juno has an email service based in India and can only then presume that, yes, perhaps they really do mirror a very familiar-looking structure (although you also very probably wouldn't see att.sbc or sbc.bellsouth in real life). Your best bet is probably SpamAssassin or similar. % % -- % Duaine Hechler HTH & HAND :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt