Re: [PHP] Check for existence of mail address

2010-10-26 Thread TR Shaw
On Oct 25, 2010, at 6:46 PM, Daniel P. Brown wrote: On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 18:38, web...@blaettner.com wrote: Is there any other function which checks whether this address really exists? Of course not! Can you imagine the implications, insecurities, and privacy concerns that would

Re: [PHP] Check for existence of mail address

2010-10-26 Thread TR Shaw
On Oct 25, 2010, at 6:38 PM, web...@blaettner.com wrote: Hi, folks, I'm wondering how to checking existence of a given mail address like f...@bar.com . At 1st I tried: if f (filter_var ($maddr, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL) === false) { /* some sort of error handling code here */ }

RE: [PHP] Check for existence of mail address

2010-10-26 Thread Bob McConnell
From: TR Shaw On Oct 25, 2010, at 6:46 PM, Daniel P. Brown wrote: On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 18:38, web...@blaettner.com wrote: Is there any other function which checks whether this address really exists? Of course not! Can you imagine the implications, insecurities, and privacy

Re: [PHP] Check for existence of mail address

2010-10-26 Thread Daniel P. Brown
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 08:49, TR Shaw ts...@oitc.com wrote: On Oct 25, 2010, at 6:46 PM, Daniel P. Brown wrote:    Of course not!  Can you imagine the implications, insecurities, and privacy concerns that would be associated with that?  Some mailservers will confirm or deny if a local

Re: [PHP] Check for existence of mail address

2010-10-26 Thread TR Shaw
On Oct 26, 2010, at 8:49 AM, TR Shaw wrote: On Oct 25, 2010, at 6:38 PM, web...@blaettner.com wrote: Hi, folks, I'm wondering how to checking existence of a given mail address like f...@bar.com . At 1st I tried: if f (filter_var ($maddr, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL) === false) { /*

Re: [PHP] Check for existence of mail address

2010-10-26 Thread TR Shaw
On Oct 26, 2010, at 9:28 AM, Bob McConnell wrote: From: TR Shaw On Oct 25, 2010, at 6:46 PM, Daniel P. Brown wrote: On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 18:38, web...@blaettner.com wrote: Is there any other function which checks whether this address really exists? Of course not! Can you