Re: can php detect whether an email address is a valid one?

You can do it like: 1) Have php send the email with a particulare return reply so that wrong email addresses get sent back to it 2) Configure procmail to launch a php script when an email is received on that account (the "return" one) 3) Write the php script (SCRIPT NOT WEB) to parse the email reiceved and delete the email-address from database. What I did once was to: Write an email (mime format, with colors and images) to many persons with "Hello $customer_name". But the system had to be controlled by the business boss :) So he could write an email to a "bot", and the "bot" converted all the $some_thing into text taken from database. It's much similar than what it looks... Ju "Alex Chau" <alex@cl2.net> ha scritto nel messaggio news:3BF1D76E.2070606@cl2.net... > I have a php script sending newsletter to a mailing list time by time, > but some emails are no longer exist, so I need to remove them manually. > Can php detect whether an email address is a valid one, then remove it > from the list automatically? no matter before or after the newsletter > has sent. > > Thanks in advance. > >