Re: Verifying E-Mail Addresses

[Dave Ockwell-Jenner <lists () solar-nexus com>]

The "best-effort" I can think of is to verify that the domain part is 
correctly configured for e-mail in DNS. This can be achieved by looking 
for an MX record for the 'company.com' domain. One of my clients does 
just this on some web sign-up forms they have.
--
Dave Ockwell-Jenner
Solar Nexus Solutions
http://www.solar-nexus.com/

Mister Dookie wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> Is there a way to verify that an e-mail address
> (e.g."johnsmith () company com") is valid and exists or does not exist
> (is a fake e-mail address) without actually sending a message to that
> address and awaiting the response?
[snip]


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