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Posted by Kimmo Laine on 12/05/05 08:15
"Bruintje Beer" <me@knoware.nl> wrote in message
news:439173f2$0$710$5fc3050@dreader2.news.tiscali.nl...
> Hello,
>
> When you submit your form registration data is there a way to check if the
> email adres supplied is a valid email address, I mean you can really sent
> a message to this email address, before processing the rest of your form
> data.
Sure there is, just send some confirmationcode to the address and ask the
user to fill it in the form as soon as they recieve the mail. You just store
the confirmation code on the server and send it to the address client
supplied. If you just wanted to make sure the address was technically valid,
then there areof course ways to detect that the string consists of a)
username part b) the @ sign, c) followed by the domain. But this does not
really make sure that you can send something to the address.
Forcing your users to give out their real email address in this method
sounds a bit harsh. In my opinion, because of spam, people have become a bit
reluctant about giving away their real email address. I personally create a
hotmail or gmail address to be used just for the one time to confirm that I
have a valid address, if one is required in registrating to some web
service. I don't know if I'm being a tinfoil hat paranoid, but I do know
that I don't get any spam mail. ;)
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