so mark... what you're saying is that i should write a simple perl app that does the email validation, and call it from the php app, passing it the email address to check!!!!
-bruce -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Thomas, Mark - BLS CTR Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 5:49 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; 'perl-win32-users' Subject: RE: regex expression to determine if i have a valid email!! > i've got a php app Say it isn't so! :) > i finally figured that someone here, might have the exact > soln to my prob! 1. Make sure it is formatted correctly, as per RFC 822. To do that, there is one big scary regex created by Jeffrey Friedl (author of Mastering Regular Expressions). If you check the link that $Bill gave you to Email::Valid, the regular expression is in there. 2. Make sure the domain is valid, and resolves to an IP address 3. Make sure an MX record is defined for the domain, and the mail host is accessible. 4. (Optional) Check the ip against selected blacklist(s). Of course, the easiest way to do this is Perl. Email::Valid does 1-3 for you. - Mark. _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
