RE: Email Address Validation

Why don't you have an automated email address verification script that fires off
an email to the person and if it doesn't come back undeliverable, you should be
ok to do the research and respond.....

Michael L Smith
Web Developer
Professional Services
(501) 220-8551

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-----Original Message-----
From:   clintbrad4d(at)earthlink.net (Clint Bradford) 
Sent:   Monday, November 15, 1999 6:14 PM
To:     kynn(at)idyllmtn.com
Cc:     clintbrad4d(at)earthlink.net; hwg-software(at)hwg.org
Subject:        Re: Email Address Validation

Maybe if I went to a CGI script of sorts - where the visitor must manually
enter his email address - that would "jar" their collective memory to use
their REAL addresses.

It's just frustrating to research an answer and email it off...only to have
it bounce back as undeliverable....

 - Clint

Kynn Bartlett wrote:

> At 02:47 PM 11/15/1999 , Clint Bradford wrote:
> >I have been receiving a rash of email inquires off my site with BAD
> >reply addresses.
> >Is there a routine that checks the "validity" of an email address that I
> >could use?
>
> There's ways to check to see if an email address is a legitimate
> type of address (e.g., the right characters before and after the
> @, and possibly looking up the domain to see if it exists), but short
> of sending email there is no way to tell if an email address actually
> will go to anyone.
>
> So, the answer is "kinda."
>
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