On 2023-11-02, dn wrote: > On 02/11/2023 19.46, Simon Connah via Python-list wrote: >> [...] >> 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. > > Exactly! > > Build a complementary script which inspects the returned/bounced > messages, and removes those addresses. > > Given that the list of addresses is built from people signing-up in the > first place, one has to presume that people know their own addresses and > can type - there's no real defence against 'stupid'*. It's not as if you > are making-up addresses yourself (in many jurisdictions it is illegal > without opt-in).
Isn't opt-in usually to the effect of "send a message with the subject SUBSCRIBE to listname-reque...@mailinglist.domain.tld " ? Then the trick becomes filtering out the spam; but the "is the email valid" check is somewhat done as a matter of processing that inbound subscribe message. -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: DDAB 23FB 19FA 7D85 1CC1 E067 6D65 70E5 4CE7 2860 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
