Yes it would, and what would be even better is if there was a standard supported way to know that an outbound email message was either sent and received successfully (by the server, not necessarily the end-user) or not.
That is to say that once you've got a syntactically successful address in your outbound email address, who's to say the address is real or hasn't been changed, etc from a programmatic point of view. At 01:04 PM 5/9/2007, you wrote: > > Does anyone have some nearly fullproof code to validate an email address > > for proper syntax? > >Apart from the other answers you have received, Steve, wouldn't it >be nice if there were something like PING but for e-mail addresses ? > >Paul > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
