All good suggestions guys. Richard's has the advantage of solving the
potential for a delay by the user's email server.
I'll have the user submit and tell'm to wait while I check the email
address for them. Solves several problems.
Al wrote:
I'm scripting a simple registry where the user can input their name
and email address.
I'd like to do a quick validity check on the email address they just
inputted. I can check the syntax, etc. but want check if the address
exists. I realize that servers can take a long time to bounce etc.
I'll just deal with this separately.
Is there a better way than simply sending a test email to see if it
bounces?
The Mail/RFC822 class in PEAR has a quick(er) static method for checking
the format of an Interweb email address.
Mail_RFC822::isValidInetAddress()
IIRC
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