Re: Email checking
| From: | Lukas | Date: | Thu, 13 Sep 2001 21:12:14 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Email checking | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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Max,
Unfortunately even going part way thru sending mail to someone to verify
their email address doesn't guarantee that it is a valid email, the
accepting SMTP server may or may not verify the recipient user in realtime,
it may que it and then return invalid mail a little later.
Lukas
"Max Mouse" <maxmouse@thisnet.org> wrote in message
news:0c5501c13c81$e6cc7010$1f92968e@oranges...
> I've been looking to check the validity of an email address when it's
> entered by a person on a from. So far, I have found many different
versions
> of code to do this, but I have yet to find one that actually works. I
would
> like to be able to check to see that: the email is in the correct format
and
> the domain actually exists. Can anyone lend a hand?
>
> Max
>