Re: Notes and Policies and Stuff...

Now the "reject" option uses the functions in phpweb/include/email-validation.inc, check them to see that I have not make any omissions. Had to do minor modifications to M. Lemos's class. Seems to be working AFAICT. --- "J. M. Castagnetto" <jcastagnetto@yahoo.com> wrote: > I remembered that Manuel Lemos wrote a class to > validate an address at 3 levels: > > "... > Class that may be used to determine if a given > e-mail > address is valid. > It features: > - Simple validation just by looking at the e-mail > address string. > - Validation of a e-mail address host as a valid > mail > exchange domain. > - Validation of a e-mail address by connecting to > the > mail host server to determine if there is really a > deliverable mail box. > ..." > > We will want to use the class for the 3rd type of > validation. A quick test shows that it seems to work > quite well, will add some more to the code and test > later. > > As for the NOSPAM, NO_SPAM, NO-SPAM, and low case > variations, I think we could just do a search and > replace and then test the resulting address using > the > class. Nothing too complicated. > > Tnxs for the nice words Rob, after all I always say > that anything that can make the job easier/simpler > is > a good thing (I am lazy that way ;-). > > > --- Ron Chmara <ron@Opus1.COM> wrote: > > "J. M. Castagnetto" wrote: > > > I have made the modifications for the "Reject" > > option. > > > Will commit and test for the next hour or so, if > > > anything breaks I will revert to the current > > versions > > > of phpweb/include/shared-manual.inc and > > > phpweb/manual/admin-notes.php > > > > Wow. You rock. This is insanely great! > > > > I did some more line breaking, bracketed the url > for > > users > > of mail clients that require such things, and > > changed a > > little wording. Nothing special. I see that it > does > > some basic email > > validity checking for check and lists.php.net, but > > it's > > going to choke on typical "ronNOSPAM@opus1.com" > 'bot > > hiding > > email addresses... > > > > There's some decent code samples using getmxrr() > > etc. on: > > > > http://www.php.net/manual/ref.mail.php > > http://www.php.net/manual/function.mail.php > > > > We might want to look into using these before we > > really piss off > > the php.net postmaster with a few hundred bounce > > messages per day, > > on old notes, users entering bad email addresses, > > etc. > > > > :-) > > > > -Bop ===== --- Jesus M. Castagnetto (jcastagnetto@yahoo.com) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/