RE: [PHP] Email Address Testing

2004-08-13 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] Question: Is it possible to know which one of my hundreds if not thousands of email addresses are invalid without ever going through my return to sender address unknown emails or the receiver of the email ever responding? [/snip] Do you mean using PHP? -- PHP General Mailing List

Re: [PHP] Email Address Testing

2004-08-13 Thread John Nichel
CSS wrote: Question: Is it possible to know which one of my hundreds if not thousands of email addresses are invalid without ever going through my return to sender address unknown emails or the receiver of the email ever responding? See, you have to write a Perl script to access a PostgreSQL

Re: [PHP] Email Address Testing

2004-08-13 Thread raditha dissanayake
Jay Blanchard wrote: [snip] Question: Is it possible to know which one of my hundreds if not thousands of email addresses are invalid without ever going through my return to sender address unknown emails or the receiver of the email ever responding? [/snip] Do you mean using PHP? if you do

RE: [PHP] Email Address Testing

2004-08-13 Thread Ed Lazor
Aren't there PHP SMTP classes that allow you to verify the validity of an email address? -Original Message- [snip] Question: Is it possible to know which one of my hundreds if not thousands of email addresses are invalid without ever going through my return to sender address

RE: [PHP] Email Address Testing

2004-08-13 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] Aren't there PHP SMTP classes that allow you to verify the validity of an email address? [/snip] Well, there is valid e-mail address formation and then valid, working, e-mail addresses. I think he is asking about the latter. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To

RE: [PHP] Email Address Testing

2004-08-13 Thread Ed Lazor
Right. It's been a while, but I vaguely remember playing an SMTP class a while back that would actually establish a connection with the remote server and verify whether the address was a valid recipient. Of course, I also seem to recall that it took forever and bogged up a lot on addresses like

Re: [PHP] Email Address Testing

2004-08-13 Thread Curt Zirzow
* Thus wrote Ed Lazor: Right. It's been a while, but I vaguely remember playing an SMTP class a while back that would actually establish a connection with the remote server and verify whether the address was a valid recipient. Of course, I also seem to recall that it took forever and bogged

Re: [PHP] Email Address Testing

2004-08-13 Thread John Nichel
Curt Zirzow wrote: The only sure way, to ensure an email is valid is by tricking the user to click on a link, like for example.. a spamcease link :) Curt Not truethose links are not to validate your email address...those links are to actually remove you from the SPAM list. SPAMMERS would not