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> Addressed to: "Steve Werby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> ** Reply to note from "Steve Werby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 3 Apr 2001
>15:24:29 -0400
> >
> >
> > I should have said there's no *reliable* way to check whether an email
> > add
Hello,
Steve Werby wrote:
> > Only thing left is whether or not
> > the user exists on the given mailserver. But for as far as I know
> > you can't automatically check that.
>
> Renze is correct. Unless you're checking local email addresses which you
> control, there's no way to check down to t
Hello,
Sharat Hegde wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to validate the email address in my PHP program using the ereg
> function. I have different combinations of regular expressions to get the
> chunks of the email substring before and after the @ symbol and the dot (.)
> character. However, th
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ** Reply to note from "Steve Werby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 3 Apr
2001 15:24:29 -0400
> >
> >
> > I should have said there's no *reliable* way to check whether an email
> > address on an external server is valid.
>
> There is one _reliable_ way to verify the email add
Addressed to: "Steve Werby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
** Reply to note from "Steve Werby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 3 Apr 2001
15:24:29 -0400
>
>
> I should have said there's no *reliable* way to check whether an email
> address on an external server is valid.
There i
"Steve Werby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> Renze is correct. Unless you're checking local email addresses which you
> control, there's no way to check down to that level. And be happy there
> isn't. Otherwise the amount of spam you get right now will increase ten
> fold.
I should have said ther
Yep Steve is a smart man. The solutions I gave are good but can
ruin your own performance totaly without it being your mistake. The
bad performance of a different server (which you probably don't even
know!) can ruin the speed of your site. Depending on the importance
of the check you'll have
"Renze Munnik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Besides the RE you might wanna take a look at these functions:
>
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.getmxrr.php
> and
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.checkdnsrr.php
>
> Using (one of) those you can check the email-address better. I.e.
> the
Johannes Janson wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> this is the regular expression from a PHP book.
>
> ereg("^[_a-zA-Z0-9-]+(\.[_a-zA-Z0-9-]+)*@([a-zA-Z0-9-]+\.)+([a-zA-z]{2,3})$,
> $formfield");
> looks horrible but works.
>
Besides the RE you might wanna take a look at these functions:
http://www.php.net
Hi,
this is the regular expression from a PHP book.
ereg("^[_a-zA-Z0-9-]+(\.[_a-zA-Z0-9-]+)*@([a-zA-Z0-9-]+\.)+([a-zA-z]{2,3})$,
$formfield");
looks horrible but works.
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