Re: Getting right EMail...

I'm assuming they need to create an account on the site? If so, require them to supply an email adress, and send an email to it with an activation code for their account. Only once they've actived the account, they can use it. If the email address supplied is invalid, they wont get the email, and thus they know they did something wrong, and you wont have invalid email adresses in your database :-) Of course, you'd have to delete the un-activated accounts if they're over a week old, cause that'd mean the user hasn't gotten their email, or they didn't bother to activate their account. Works fine here :-) Jurian At 14:37 17-8-2000 +0200, Martin wrote:

Hello ! I got a shop-system where the user has of course to enter his address and his email. The problem: Many users type-in WRONG Emails (about 30%). Things like "...@aol.de" instead of "...@aol.com", same with yahoo.de/com, mostly only a letter is missing ("Katharin@somehost.tld" instead of "Katharina@somehost.tld"). I use syntax-checking with a reg-expression, which works fine but can of course not find the errors shown above. I tried use the script found at http://px.sklar.com/ -> network, which connects directly to the EMail-Server and tries to identify the user. Unfortunatly, this doesn't work correctly, because some email-servers always say "well, thats a correct address". Yahoo for example tells sometimes right, sometimes on a unvalid name -> ok and sometimes on a valid name -> not ok... So this is not a save way to check an email. Any other ideas ? Martin -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net