Check out Hexillion as well. Has a similar verification method. I found
this the other day and bookmarked it, beyond that, I dunno.
http://www.hexillion.com/
Tompkins
"Walt
Daniels" To: "TechRocks Support"
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<wdaniels@bes cc:
tweb.net> Subject: [support] Re: email address
validation
07/26/2001
05:03 PM
Please
respond to
"TechRocks
Support"
Checking out valid email addresses is much harder than what you are
proposing. For instance "Walt Daniels"@nowhere.com is a legal email
address.
You can put lots of foolish characters like blank in if you quote it. You
need to read the RFC 822 spec.
Most of our problems come from our data entry people "interpretting"
handwriting. They screw up zeros and ones and other hard to detect typos.
There is a program called "Advanced Email Verifier" that I have played
with.
It takes an address and goes through the first part of the smtp protocol,
actually contacting the site to see if the address is legal, all without
sending any actual mail. It doesn't have a programable interface that I can
find unfortunately, only a GUI. None the less I am thinking of having our
data entry people cut and paste from ebase into it and verify what they
type.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jack Noll [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 11:20 AM
> To: TechRocks Support
> Subject: [support] Re: email address validation
>
>
> Actually, this is not quite true. Although ebase allows the user
> to enter
> an email address that appears to be invalid, it still gets filtered out
> when you actually create the bulk email. I have no idea why the
> @#$%# who
> wrote that routine did it that way! ;>)
>
> >Obviously the last criterion is less than complete, since there
> are many,
> >many valid suffix strings. It works ok, though, because ebase will allow
> >the user to enter a "non-standard" address.
>
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>
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