Posted by BearItAll on 06/15/02 11:19

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 16:07:04 +0200, Alvaro G Vicario wrote:

> *** news@celticbear.com wrote/escribió (22 Jun 2005 06:51:59 -0700):
>> There's all kinds of ways to validate an email address to make sure it's
>> well formed and whatnot, but what about checking to see if it's a valid
>> e-mail account?
>> Like how you can use checkdnsrr() to check to see if a URL is valid.
>
> Generate a random string, send it through email and make user type it back
> in the site (for example, making a link). Believe me, there's no other
> way.
>
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> -- Álvaro G. Vicario - Burgos, Spain
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They must be a way, MSN did it when I mistyped my email address in
the sign up box it told me straight away that it was invalid and it was
only invalid because I typed a 'd' in place of an 's' in the part before
the @ sign.

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