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I've written a tool that does that (see David Foxwell's reply) but there
are some things you may not be considering:
1) The computer doesn't know the difference between the network/internet
being down and the user's domain not existing. So if your internet
connection as a hiccup, a valid address might come back as "invalid."
2) There's very little standardization in the way of e-mail addresses.
You can pretty much put anything you like before the @ symbol.
3) Due to the all of the spammers trying to find out what everyone's
e-mail addresses are, there's no way to truly validate an e-mail
address. You can validate a domain (but see #1, above) but not the
actual address. All e-mail providers treat e-mail addresses as "secrets."
So for the most part, e-mail address validation is a trail of tears.
On 10/18/2010 8:11 AM, tim.dclinc@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I am looking for a way to validate an email address, not only syntax, but
also the mx record and such.
If possible, can someone give me suggestions on how this can be done?
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