How to validate email address before sending mail
Does anyone know a good way to validate an email address prior to sending out the email?The scenario is that I have a database of customers and want to send an email, but want to capture the email addresses that will bounce prior to sending the email. TIA, Issac [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: How to validate email address before sending mail
Yes use the following
script
function checkForm(theForm) {
var emailRegex=/^\w+([\.-]?\w+)[EMAIL PROTECTED]([\.-]?\w+)*(\.\w{2,})+$/;
if(document.forms[theForm.name].contactEmail.value.length==0||emailRegex.test(document.forms[theForm.name].contactEmail.value)==false)
{
alert('Please enter the email address!');
return false;
} else {
return true;
}
}
/script
form name=myForm action="" method=post
checkForm(this)
...
/form
Issac Rosa wrote:
Does anyone know a good way to validate an email address prior to
sending out the email?The scenario is that I have a database of
customers and want to send an email, but want to capture the email
addresses that will bounce prior to sending the email.
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Re: How to validate email address before sending mail
At 12:26 PM 5/21/2004, you wrote: Does anyone know a good way to validate an email address prior to sending out the email?The scenario is that I have a database of customers and want to send an email, but want to capture the email addresses that will bounce prior to sending the email. I use a custom tag called ValidEmail (off the DevEx) that works pretty well. It's not 100% though. [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
RE: How to validate email address before sending mail
Try this
cfif NOT REFindnocase(^[-_!a-z0-9\.]+@([-_a-z0-9]+\.)+[a-z]{2,6}$,
form.email_Field)
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From: Issac Rosa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 1:26 PM
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Subject: How to validate email address before sending mail
Does anyone know a good way to validate an email address prior to
sending out the email?The scenario is that I have a database of
customers and want to send an email, but want to capture the email
addresses that will bounce prior to sending the email.
TIA,
Issac
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Re: How to validate email address before sending mail
Do you want to validate just to make sure it fits the proper format for email, or to test if the domain and box exist? I know of no way to do the later, but you could use regular expressions to validate the format of the email. Do a google for email validation regex -mike -Original Message- From: Issac Rosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 14:26:03 -0400 Subject: How to validate email address before sending mail Does anyone know a good way to validate an email address prior to sending out the email?The scenario is that I have a database of customers and want to send an email, but want to capture the email addresses that will bounce prior to sending the email. TIA, Issac [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
RE: How to validate email address before sending mail
Thanks, I already do this prior to saving the email in the db.I want
to test the mailbox to make sure I get a valid response to avoid bounced
messages prior to sending the actual email.
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From: Bryan F. Hogan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 2:31 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: How to validate email address before sending mail
Yes use the following
script
function checkForm(theForm) {
var emailRegex=/^\w+([\.-]?\w+)[EMAIL PROTECTED]([\.-]?\w+)*(\.\w{2,})+$/;
if(document.forms[theForm.name].contactEmail.value.length==0||emailRegex
.test(document.forms[theForm.name].contactEmail.value)==false)
{
alert('Please enter the email address!');
return false;
} else {
return true;
}
}
/script
form name=myForm action="" method=post
checkForm(this)
...
/form
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Does anyone know a good way to validate an email address prior to
sending out the email?The scenario is that I have a database of
customers and want to send an email, but want to capture the email
addresses that will bounce prior to sending the email.
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Re: How to validate email address before sending mail
Good luck. Issac Rosa wrote: Thanks, I already do this prior to saving the email in the db.I want to test the mailbox to make sure I get a valid response to avoid bounced messages prior to sending the actual email. [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
RE: How to validate email address before sending mail
You can't guarantee that you will get the response you are expecting, for instance MS Exchange 2000 servers and below all respond 250 if the domain is valid and accept the mail, they may well bounce it later but if they manage that domain, they will accept anything sent to it initially. I know Exchange 2003 operates differently if you want it to in that it will only accept mail for the defined mailboxes if you set it up that way. As for other mail servers, I think how this is implemented is totally dependent on how the developers interpreted the relevant RFC documentation. Paul [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: How to validate email address before sending mail
Issac Rosa wrote: Does anyone know a good way to validate an email address prior to sending out the email?The scenario is that I have a database of customers and want to send an email, but want to capture the email addresses that will bounce prior to sending the email. It can't be done reliably.MANY mail servers will accept mail for non-existent accounts, then bounce them. - Rick [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
