My approach to this problem is to do a very rudimentary check on the
email address format using the following regex:

"[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Send the email and check mail logs for bounced messages.

It's just as likely that a person entered a valid but incorrect address
as that they entered one that is invalid. Possibly more so given the
huge range of possibilities for a valid address.

This assumes that you have access to the smtp logs, but it's the best
solution I've been able to come up with.

Spike

Les Mizzell wrote:
> I've spent the last couple of hours looking at "isEmail" and regular
> _expression_ stuff, but haven't gotten anything to work for me yet. I
> swear somebody posted, just a few weeks ago, a good piece of working
> code, but for some reason I can't seem to get the archive search to work
> for me...
>
> Here's essentially what I'm trying to do:
>
> <cfloop query="emailLIST">
>     <IF THE EMAIL ADDRESS IS VALID>
>       <cfmail ..blah, blah..send to #emailAddress#..blah, blah>
>       Sent: #emailAddress# <!---display so I can see where it went--->
>     <cfelse>
>       <!---display so I can see where it's screwed--->
>       Bad Address - somebody fix this!: #emailAddress#
> </cfif>
> <cfloop>
>
>
> Pointers please?
>
>

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