Checking if email is valid

[Simon Connah]

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> On Thu, 2 Nov 2023 at 05:21, Simon Connah via Python-list
> python-list at python.org wrote:
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> > Could someone push me in the right direction please? I just want to find out if a string is a valid email address.
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> There is only one way to know that a string is a valid email address,
> and that's to send an email to it.
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> What is your goal though? For example, if you're trying to autolink
> email addresses in text, you don't really care whether it's valid,
> only that it looks like an address.
> 


My goal is to make a simple mailing list platform. I guess I could just send email to an address and if it bounces then I can remove it from the database. Thing is I'm not sure how close to a real email address an email has to be in order to be bounced. If it was completely wrong it might just swallowed up.

Simon.
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