Re: activation through email

Ahmad Al-Twaijiry wrote: > Hi everyone > > I have a site with around 1000 new users everyday, and when every user > register my scripts will send a random password to his email. that many users everyday? might be time to invest in a programmer or 2? even if your site generates no income there must be some revenue generation potential that could attract investment. no? > > the problem is that I got many users (specially hotmail users) > complain that they didn't receive any email (even in the hotmail junk > box). > > I know that hotmail is filtering me as a possibly a spammer (because I > use a shared mail server) and there is nothing I can do about this. there are probably quite a few things you can do to make you emails appear less spammy than they do now - don't use HTML, include a valid sender address, er ... check the web and the archives for plenty of good advice on making emails your site send less spammy-looking. > now I stooped sending the password to the users email and I just make > the user chose his own password and he can login directly without the > need to check his email for the password. > > but the problem now is that many users are registering with a fake > emails :( > > so I want to ask you if you have any solution for this ? how can I (in > someway) make my scripts check if the email is valid and exists email > before I register him without the need to send any password or > activation link to his email ? someone else pointed out that you could use the MX server to ask whether an account exists ... this is a potentiall slow process and should be done as a batch job (e.g. using cron to run a email addr checking script once a day) > > do you have any idea ? > > Thanks > >