Email Validation with domain
Ben Finney
bignose+hates-spam at benfinney.id.au
Wed Jul 2 09:25:24 EDT 2008
Sallu <praveen.sunsetpoint at gmail.com> writes:
> validateEmail(msg) i wrote a script above it works fine
Actually, no. It rejects a great many email addresses that are valid.
> but it does not check for valid domain like .com .org .in how to
> validate with domain
To validate a domain for delivery of email, check with the DNS by
requesting the A or MX record for that domain.
To validate an email address, check with the mail server for that
domain by sending a message to the address.
Neither of them should be "validated" by a regular expression.
Please refer to RFC 3696 <URL:http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3696.txt>
described as "Recommended techniques for applications checking or
manipulating domain and other internet names".
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