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This is custom email format validation service that hold all the cases.
require 'resolv.rb'
class EmailValidationService
DOMAIN_LENGTH = 255
LOCAL_LENGTH = 64
LOCAL_PART_SPECIAL_CHAR = /[\!\#\$\%\&\'\*\-\/\=\?\+\-\^\_\`\{\|\}\~]/
def self.valid_email_format?(email)
begin
domain, local = email.reverse.split('@', 2)
rescue
return false
end
return false if local.blank?
return false if domain.blank?
return false if local.length > LOCAL_LENGTH
return false if domain.length > DOMAIN_LENGTH
local.reverse!
domain.reverse!
return false unless self.validate_local_part_syntax(local) && self.validate_domain_part_syntax(domain)
return false unless self.validate_email_domain(email)
true
end
def self.validate_email_domain(email)
domain = email.to_s.downcase.match(/\@(.+)/)[1]
Resolv::DNS.open do |dns|
@mx = dns.getresources(domain, Resolv::DNS::Resource::IN::MX) + dns.getresources(domain, Resolv::DNS::Resource::IN::A)
end
@mx.size > 0 ? true : false
end
def self.validate_local_part_syntax(local)
in_quoted_pair = false
in_quoted_string = false
(0..local.length-1).each do |i|
ord = local[i].ord
# accept anything if it's got a backslash before it
if in_quoted_pair
in_quoted_pair = false
next
end
# backslash signifies the start of a quoted pair
if ord == 92 && i < local.length - 1
return false unless in_quoted_string # must be in quoted string per http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=3696
in_quoted_pair = true
next
end
# double quote delimits quoted strings
if ord == 34
in_quoted_string = !in_quoted_string
next
end
next if local[i, 1] =~ /[a-z0-9]/i
next if local[i, 1] =~ LOCAL_PART_SPECIAL_CHAR
# period must be followed by something
if ord == 46
return false if i == 0 || i == local.length - 1 # can't be first or last char
next unless local[i+1].ord == 46 # can't be followed by a period
end
return false
end
return false if in_quoted_string # unbalanced quotes
return true
end
def self.validate_domain_part_syntax(domain)
parts = domain.downcase.split('.', -1)
return false if parts.length <= 1 # Only one domain part
# Empty parts (double period) or invalid chars
return false if parts.any? {
|part|
part.nil? ||
part.empty? ||
!(part =~ /\A[[:alnum:]\-]+\Z/) ||
part[0, 1] == '-' || part[-1, 1] == '-' # hyphen at beginning or end of part
}
# ipv4
return true if parts.length == 4 && parts.all? { |part| part =~ /\A[0-9]+\Z/ && part.to_i.between?(0, 255) }
return false if parts[-1].length < 2 || !(parts[-1] =~ /[a-z\-]/) # TLD is too short or does not contain a char or hyphen
return true
end
end
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After research of many gems I compiled this service, light weight and easy to integrate in code.

These are some of the results, let me know if there is any case that is not working as per expectation; any missing case indication will be appreciated.

EmailValidationService.valid_email_format?('sohair@relogm@ail.com')     => false 
EmailValidationService.valid_email_format?('sohair@relogm@ail.com')     => false 
EmailValidationService.valid_email_format?('sohair@gmail')              => false 
EmailValidationService.valid_email_format?('sohair@gmail.')             => false 
EmailValidationService.valid_email_format?('sohair@gmail.c')            => false 
EmailValidationService.valid_email_format?('@gmail.co')                 => false 
EmailValidationService.valid_email_format?('aaa@gmail')                 => false 
EmailValidationService.valid_email_format?('aaa@gmail.asdfdf')          => false 
EmailValidationService.valid_email_format?('aaa@gmail.assf')            => false 
EmailValidationService.valid_email_format?('aaa@gmail.con')             => false 
EmailValidationService.valid_email_format?('aaa@gmail.co.')             => false 
EmailValidationService.valid_email_format?('aaa@gmail..com')            => false 
EmailValidationService.valid_email_format?('sohair@gmail.co')           => true 
EmailValidationService.valid_email_format?('sohair@rel.com')            => true 
EmailValidationService.valid_email_format?('sohair@gmail.com')          => true 
EmailValidationService.valid_email_format?('aaa@gmail.com')             => true 

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