On 24/09/06, Ingo Linkweiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone a function/script to verify an e-mail-address? > > It should: > a) check the syntax > b) verify an existing mailserver or DNS/MX records >
b) is problematical. A domain with MX records may not really have a mail server at all. Under RFC's, if no MX records exist the A record returned for the mail-domain (the bit after the @ ) should be used as the MX record. So to check b) you must not rely on DNS records, you need to physically connect to the domain's mailserver(s). HTH :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
