> 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. > > But this morning, I found something that might be better if you can > translate asp -> python. http://coveryourasp.com/ValidateEmail.asp
Jim, Yes, this is real close to what I need to do in Zope. Thanks. I use Formulator for the email syntax validation from a form. But emails are universal, it would be nice to have built-in validation. My python is very weak but, It would be interesting to see something like this in Zope...from http://www.hexillion.com/software/components/HexValidEmail/ To see how easy it is to check syntax, domain, and username, take a look at these two lines of VBScript code: Set oVE = Server.CreateObject("HexValidEmail.Connection") If 0 = oVE.Validate("[EMAIL PROTECTED]",3) Then 'it's bad -Trevor _______________________________________________ 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 )
