Steven D'Aprano a écrit :
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:11:38 +0200, Christophe wrote:
This is useless AND annoying at the same time.
But people like us don't screw up our email address in the first place,
and if we do, we know how to fix it. Not everybody is like us.
So you say that the better
Besides, what is so special with electronic forms that we have to go
through all kind of tricks to make sure the user doesn't make mistakes
when regular paper forms just assume the user will be careful when he
fills it? Must be some kind of IQ draining field emited by all the
computers which
Ingo Linkweiler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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Bjoern Schliessmann schrieb:
Ingo Linkweiler wrote:
b) verify an existing mailserver or DNS/MX records
Or? That's two different things.
If you don't know already: Even if you test all this, it is still
On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 13:23:03 +0200, Ingo Linkweiler wrote:
The usual way to cope with this is sending out confirmation mails. No
need to check if the address is syntactically correct beforehand.
yes, I do this allready. But it would be nice to do some checks before
to avoid wrong user
Steven D'Aprano a écrit :
By memory, in an thread about the same topic just a few days ago, Fredrik
Lundh posted a link to Perl's FAQs that suggests a method for validating
email addresses: treat it like a password and ask the user to type it
twice. That will protect against simple typos and
Christophe wrote:
Steven D'Aprano a écrit :
By memory, in an thread about the same topic just a few days ago, Fredrik
Lundh posted a link to Perl's FAQs that suggests a method for validating
email addresses: treat it like a password and ask the user to type it
twice. That will protect against
Christophe wrote:
Steven D'Aprano a écrit :
By memory, in an thread about the same topic just a few days ago, Fredrik
Lundh posted a link to Perl's FAQs that suggests a method for validating
email addresses: treat it like a password and ask the user to type it
twice. That will protect against
Georg Brandl a écrit :
Christophe wrote:
Steven D'Aprano a écrit :
By memory, in an thread about the same topic just a few days ago,
Fredrik
Lundh posted a link to Perl's FAQs that suggests a method for
validating
email addresses: treat it like a password and ask the user to type it
Steve Holden a écrit :
Christophe wrote:
Steven D'Aprano a écrit :
By memory, in an thread about the same topic just a few days ago,
Fredrik
Lundh posted a link to Perl's FAQs that suggests a method for
validating
email addresses: treat it like a password and ask the user to type it
Frithiof Andreas Jensen wrote:
For those kind of sites demanding registration for trivial usage (i.e. most
sites do) I use my own domain controlled by myself - the adress is valid for
the
confirmation mail then, after I got what I came for (or after I found out that
this site was a waste of
Christophe wrote:
Georg Brandl a écrit :
Christophe wrote:
Steven D'Aprano a écrit :
By memory, in an thread about the same topic just a few days ago,
Fredrik
Lundh posted a link to Perl's FAQs that suggests a method for
validating
email addresses: treat it like a password and ask the
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:11:38 +0200, Christophe wrote:
Steven D'Aprano a écrit :
By memory, in an thread about the same topic just a few days ago, Fredrik
Lundh posted a link to Perl's FAQs that suggests a method for validating
email addresses: treat it like a password and ask the user to type
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
ingo
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Ingo Linkweiler wrote:
b) verify an existing mailserver or DNS/MX records
Or? That's two different things.
If you don't know already: Even if you test all this, it is still
possible that
- the target mail account doesn't exist
- the sender's IP is filtered by the server so he'll reject
- the
Bjoern Schliessmann schrieb:
Ingo Linkweiler wrote:
b) verify an existing mailserver or DNS/MX records
Or? That's two different things.
If you don't know already: Even if you test all this, it is still
possible that
- the target mail account doesn't exist
- the sender's IP is
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ingo Linkweiler wrote:
The script will be used as part auf a user registration page to avoid
dummy-inputs like [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The usual way to cope with this is sending out confirmation mails. No
need to check if the address is syntactically correct beforehand.
The usual way to cope with this is sending out confirmation mails. No
need to check if the address is syntactically correct beforehand.
yes, I do this allready. But it would be nice to do some checks before
to avoid wrong user inputs.
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Ingo Linkweiler wrote:
yes, I do this allready. But it would be nice to do some checks
before to avoid wrong user inputs.
What do you do if the user inputs a wrong address? If you reject
with an error message, the medium intelligent user will enter
something like
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
as next
Bjoern Schliessmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ingo Linkweiler wrote:
yes, I do this allready. But it would be nice to do some checks
before to avoid wrong user inputs.
What do you do if the user inputs a wrong address? If you reject
with an error message, the medium intelligent user will
Ben Finney wrote:
I believe Ingo is checking for the case where the user intended to
enter a valid email address, and made a typing error resulting in
a trivially invalid one.
Ah. Good intention, but the same applies: Typos in the localpart are
not detectable. Typos in the domain part could
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.
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