Re: Historical Question

If you search the archives for both MIDRANGE-L and RPG400-L you'll find
several discussions of e-mail validation.

The truth is, the only real way to validate an e-mail address is to send
mail to it, and ask the person receiving the mail to send back a response.

If you just want to validate the syntax of the address, along with whether
the domain name exists  (for example, to catch some keying errors) I wrote
a service program which does this for the iSeries Network's Club Tech
Programming Tips Newsletter.

You can find the article here:
http://www.iseriesnetwork.com/resources/clubtech/index.cfm?fuseaction=ShowNewsletterIssue&ID=17632

If you're not a member of the iSeries Network, it costs nothing to set up
an "associate" membership, and then you can access that article.

If you can't do that, contact me off-list, and I'll see what I can do.



On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Martin, Steve (MAN-Golden) wrote:

> Hello, I'm new to the list and I'm sure my question has been answered in the
> past. I went to the Midrange[dot]com site and searched for an RPG[LE] email
> validation routine, but I didn't quickly find an answer.
>
> Can someone direct me at a past article or code sample?
>