Re: Email Address Validation
by Kynn Bartlett <kynn(at)idyllmtn.com>
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Mon, 15 Nov 1999 16:03:32 -0800 |
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Clint Bradford <clintbrad4d(at)earthlink.net> |
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hwg-software <hwg-software(at)hwg.org> |
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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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