> Just to throw this out into the mix we have a Java class (and 
> UDF library) for validating email addresses at: 
> http://www.cfdev.com/email/
> 
> Besides checking syntax, and all valid TLD's it can also do a 
> MX lookup
> (DNS) to validate that the domain is indeed valid. And if you 
> want to go beyond that, you can also check the mail servers 
> (without sending an email).

Thanks for that!  I hadn't noticed that before!

There really is only one way to validate an email address anyway, which is
to send an email to it.  I always wonder if it's worthwhile doing any more
than an MX record lookup anyway (assuming that the MX record will validate
the server existing too!)

Paul




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