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, wrote: Is there any other function which checks whether this address really exists? >>> >>> Of course not! Can you i

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) ===

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 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 address ex

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, 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

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 TR Shaw
On Oct 25, 2010, at 6:46 PM, Daniel P. Brown wrote: > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 18:38, 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 be associa

Re: [PHP] Check for existence of mail address

2010-10-25 Thread Jonathan Tapicer
You can use this class: http://www.webdigi.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/smtpvalidateclassphp.txt It may not work for some SMTPs. It uses the concepts explained here: http://www.webdigi.co.uk/blog/2009/how-to-check-if-an-email-address-exists-without-sending-an-email/ On Mon, Oct 25, 2010

Re: [PHP] Check for existence of mail address

2010-10-25 Thread Daniel P. Brown
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 18:38, 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 be associated with that? Some mailservers will confirm or deny if a local

[PHP] Check for existence of mail address

2010-10-25 Thread webdev
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 */ } where $maddr is the address to be checked. But this checks only synt