Re: E-Mail Verification - Yes, I know....

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:40, Jay Blanchard <jblanchard@pocket.com> wrote: > Our company wants to do e-mail verification and does not want to use the > requests / response method (clicking a link in the e-mail to verify the > address), which as we all know is the only way you can be truly sure. I > found this; > > http://verify-email.org/ It apparently requires the www. CNAME to access it via the web. > Which seems to be the next best deal and it is written in PHP. Has > anyone used this? Is anyone doing something similar? How do you handle > errors? I know that some domains will not accept these requests. > > I think that this method would really work for us and cut down on the > bogus e-mail addresses we're receiving though. Thoughts? If it has a good CAPTCHA mechanism in place, maybe. Otherwise, it's not too difficult to write a parser to read bounces and auto-click the link (and even attempt to pass or bypass a challenge). -- </Daniel P. Brown> daniel.brown@parasane.net || danbrown@php.net http://www.parasane.net/ || http://www.pilotpig.net/ 50% Off All Shared Hosting Plans at PilotPig: Use Coupon DOW10000