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> On Thu, 2 Nov 2023 at 05:21, Simon Connah via Python-list > python-list@python.org wrote: > > > Could someone push me in the right direction please? I just want to find > > out if a string is a valid email address. > > > There is only one way to know that a string is a valid email address, > and that's to send an email to it. > > 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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