Posted by C. on 12/05/07 13:17

On 5 Dec, 12:41, "vrlist.info" <vrlist.i...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Colin,
<snip>
>
> I send an email for all the posters. The spam via email is not a real
> problem (spam blocked on the email server), my problem is at the
> database. Validating the email would save some of them, but usually
> they put a generic sintactically valid email.
>

It's not enough to just regex the email to check it is valid, or even
do a DNS lookup on the domain - you should hold all submissions from
unconfirmed email addresses in a quarantine area and email a URL on
your server to the address - the URL should release the the
corresponding post and flag the email address as confirmed.

C.

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