No. Some mail servers (qmail for sure) have the user auth section seperated from the piece that accepts mail from the internet. As long as the mail is for the correct domain, it will accept it, and passes it to a seperate program that checks for the user and either bounces or delivers the mail.
-----Original Message----- From: cristi radulescu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 7:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Email Validation hi there, is there any way to check the existence of an e-mail address without sending an email? i mean not only DNS lookup, but also user validation? 10x, cristi radulescu http://translator.urbanxp.org http://www.urbanxp.org ML> On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 04:10, CrossWalkCentral wrote: >> How would I go about doing the DNS look up part? ML> with checkdnsrr() I'd assume: ML> checkdnsrr($host) ML> "Searches DNS for records of type type corresponding to host. Returns ML> TRUE if any records are found; returns FALSE if no records were found or ML> if an error occurred." ML> the default type is MX. ML> http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.checkdnsrr.php _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
