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

2009/4/28 Jay Blanchard <jblanchard@pocket.com>: > 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/ > > 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. > They don't even detect greylisting! > I think that this method would really work for us and cut down on the > bogus e-mail addresses we're receiving though. Thoughts? > There's just one way: let the users confirm with an activation link. People often insert their addresses wrong without noticing it.. example: www.myalias@mydomain.org instead of myalias@mydomain.org, aol.<DE|UK|NL|FR|etc> instead of aol.com and so on. So ... nothing like "insert your mail twice" or "re-check your address please" actually works. ;) On the other hand: Douple-opt-In is quite like an industry standard - why wouldn't your firm use it? It makes customers happy as well as "not-customers" because people can't use their addressess to sign-up. I hate getting other peoples email. byebye