2009/4/28 Jay Blanchard <jblanchard@xxxxxxxxxx>: > Our company wants to do e-mail verification and does not want to use the > requests / response method (clicking a link in the e-mail to verify the > address), which as we all know is the only way you can be truly sure. I > found this; > > http://verify-email.org/ > > Which seems to be the next best deal and it is written in PHP. Has > anyone used this? Is anyone doing something similar? How do you handle > errors? I know that some domains will not accept these requests. > > I think that this method would really work for us and cut down on the > bogus e-mail addresses we're receiving though. Thoughts? Been there, tried that, got blacklisted pretty quickly by most major ISPs and email providers. In short do this only if you have a very limited number of accounts, and only if you can afford to have your IP blacklisted should you hit individual mail server limits. Or, to put it another way, don't do it. There are reasons why the VRFY SMTP command is not implemented by most servers. Firstly it reveals too much information. Secondly it wastes server resources. Same goes for this method of checking an address. Question is why don't you want to ask the user to confirm their email address? It's a pretty standard requirement these days that most users are familiar with. I can't think of a single reason why any company would want to avoid it. -Stuart -- http://stut.net/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
