From: "Jim Washington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Apparently _some_ of this is possible. A couple of weeks ago, I was > facing a similar situation, and found a site on the web that would do > validation of email addresses by (IIRC) sending a mailto header to the > mail domain and looking at the response. It did not work for all > domains, notably hotmail and yahoo would not tell whether the address > was OK or not. But a few smaller isps would work. Unfortunately, I > cannot find that site now.
Yes, you can look up the domain, find the mailhandler, open a connection, do a MAIL FROM and a RCPT TO to the address in question. If that goes OK, the mail shouldn't bounce. There is a dns module at http://www.interlink.com.au/anthony/ , and then it should not be too hard to make something that verifies e-mail addresses. That might be rather handy... But I won't need one for a couple of months so I'm not doing it. :-) _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
