I threw together this totally untested and unreliable code to solicit
comments on whether or not this is a good way to validate emails. Consider
the following:
pseudocode
function validate_email($email){
if (str_word_count($email,'@')!=1){return('Not a proper email address');}
(private email forwarded to list)
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 2:19 PM
To: Jim Moseby
Subject: Re: [PHP] email validation (no regex)
There's no requirement for an MX-record, so you'd need to check the
A-record ($domain) too
Jim Moseby wrote:
There's no requirement for an MX-record, so you'd need to check the
A-record ($domain) too.
Excellent answer. No requirement for MX record?
[showing my ignorance]
How does email routing happen if there is no mail exchanger in the
zonefile for a particular domain?
As an admin I would assume this as spammers trying to get some emails and I
would block this on the firewall.
- Original Message -
From: Michael Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: php-general@lists.php.net
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 4:22 PM
Subject: RE: [PHP] email validation
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