Thursday, August 30, 2007

Email address validation with PowerShell and Exchange 2007


This function verifies if a string is a qualified email address.

function Validate-EmailAddress{
    param([string]$email)
    [Microsoft.Exchange.Data.SmtpAddress]::IsValidSmtpAddress($email);
}


>> Validate-EmailAddress "Shay@homelab.loc"
True

>> Validate-EmailAddress "Shay.homelab.loc"
False

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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