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  } elseif (zen_validate_email($email_address) == false) {
    $error = true;

    $messageStack->add('create_account', ENTRY_EMAIL_ADDRESS_CHECK_ERROR);

}

if (strlen($email_address) < ENTRY_EMAIL_ADDRESS_MIN_LENGTH) {
$error = true;

$messageStack->add('create_account', ENTRY_EMAIL_ADDRESS_ERROR);
} elseif (zen_validate_email($email_address) == false) {
$error = true;

$messageStack->add('create_account', ENTRY_EMAIL_ADDRESS_CHECK_ERROR);
} else {
$check_email_query = "select count(*) as total
from " . TABLE_CUSTOMERS . "
where customers_email_address = '" . zen_db_input($email_address) . "'";

$check_email = $db->Execute($check_email_query);

if ($check_email->fields['total'] > 0) {
$error = true;

$messageStack->add('create_account', ENTRY_EMAIL_ADDRESS_ERROR_EXISTS);
}
}

/**
* validates an email address
*
* Sample Valid Addresses:
*
* [email protected]
* [email protected]
* "first last"@host.com
* "first@last"@host.com
* [email protected]
* first'[email protected]
* first.last@[123.123.123.123]
*
* hosts with either external IP addresses or from 2-6 characters will pass (e.g. .jp or .museum)
*
* Invalid Addresses:
*
* first [email protected]
* '[email protected]
* @param string The email address to validate
* @return booloean true if valid else false
**/
function zen_validate_email($email) {
$valid_address = true;

// fail if contains no @ symbol
if (!strstr($email,'@')) return false;

// split the email address into user and domain parts
// need to update to trap for addresses in the format of "first@last"@someplace.com
// this method will most likely break in that case
list( $user, $domain ) = explode( "@", $email );
$valid_ip_form = '[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}';
$valid_email_pattern = '^[a-z0-9]+[a-z0-9_\.\'\-]*@[a-z0-9]+[a-z0-9\.\-]*\.(([a-z]{2,6})|([0-9]{1,3}))$';
//preg_match('/^([a-zA-Z0-9])+([a-zA-Z0-9\._-])*@([a-zA-Z0-9_-])+(\.[a-zA-Z0-9\._-]+)+$/', $email))
//preg_match('/^[a-z0-9&\'\.\-_\+]+@[a-z0-9\-]+\.([a-z0-9\-]+\.)*?[a-z]+$/is');
$space_check = '[ ]';

// strip beginning and ending quotes, if and only if both present
if( (ereg('^["]', $user) && ereg('["]$', $user)) ){
$user = ereg_replace ( '^["]', '', $user );
$user = ereg_replace ( '["]$', '', $user );
$user = ereg_replace ( $space_check, '', $user ); //spaces in quoted addresses OK per RFC (?)
$email = $user."@".$domain; // contine with stripped quotes for remainder
}

// fail if contains spaces in domain name
if (strstr($domain,' ')) return false;

// if email domain part is an IP address, check each part for a value under 256
if (ereg($valid_ip_form, $domain)) {
$digit = explode( ".", $domain );
for($i=0; $i<4; $i++) {
if ($digit[$i] > 255) {
$valid_address = false;
return $valid_address;
exit;
}
// stop crafty people from using internal IP addresses
if (($digit[0] == 192) || ($digit[0] == 10)) {
$valid_address = false;
return $valid_address;
exit;
}
}
}

if (!ereg($space_check, $email)) { // trap for spaces in
if ( eregi($valid_email_pattern, $email)) { // validate against valid email patterns
$valid_address = true;
} else {
$valid_address = false;
return $valid_address;
exit;
}
}
return $valid_address;
}


?>

Kim:

Have you turned on the Validate Email addresses using DNS? If so - turn it off.