Re: Validating email addresses

[Patrick Townsend <townsend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark,

There are a couple of ways of doing this. You can use the sockets 
gethostaddr() function to make sure the domain portion of the email address 
is valid. You can also use a mail abuse list to see if the domain has been 
listed. I'm not aware of any way to directly validate a specific email 
address. What most folks do is specify a reply-to address that is used to 
accumulate returned mail. If you have an email product on your AS/400 that 
supports automatically processing received messages you can implement 
automated updating of the list of email addresses. Net400's product can do 
this.

Patrick


At 01:08 PM 6/29/2000 -0500, Mark Allen wrote:
>We store email addresses for customers and sales reps in the corresponding
>master file on the AS/400.  Is there a way to validate/check/edit the email
>address entered (either interactively or in a batch process) to ensure that
>it is a valid email address?
>
>
>Mark Allen
>IS Manager
>Kelly's Kids
>markallen@kellyskids.com
>
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