Re: Email Verification
| From: | Per Jessen | Date: | Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:20:02 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Email Verification | ||
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Richard Heyes wrote:
>> I have been looking at getmxrr and the examples feature some good
>> advice, etc.
>> One that I've found that I'm thinking of using is
>>
>> http://www.tienhuis.nl/php-email-address-validation-with-verify-probe
>> which tries to connect to the SMTP server as well as mx lookup, etc.
>
> You could. Bear in mind that you can't do that if their mail server
> happens to be down at the time.
Greylisting is also likely to interfer with the process.
> Like I said, my preferred option would be just to send the
> user an email.
I second that.
/Per Jessen, Zürich