Top-posting on top of it all. Disregard *everything* from my previous email. I typed it up before checking out the site, since it wouldn't work from this system when hit without the alias. Then, when I did hit it and read it, I meant to click "Discard" and clicked "Send." #@%&. On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:50, Daniel Brown <danbrown@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:40, Jay Blanchard <jblanchard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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/ > > It apparently requires the www. CNAME to access it via the web. > >> 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? > > If it has a good CAPTCHA mechanism in place, maybe. Otherwise, > it's not too difficult to write a parser to read bounces and > auto-click the link (and even attempt to pass or bypass a challenge). > > -- > </Daniel P. Brown> > daniel.brown@xxxxxxxxxxxx || danbrown@xxxxxxx > http://www.parasane.net/ || http://www.pilotpig.net/ > 50% Off All Shared Hosting Plans at PilotPig: Use Coupon DOW10000 > -- </Daniel P. Brown> daniel.brown@xxxxxxxxxxxx || danbrown@xxxxxxx http://www.parasane.net/ || http://www.pilotpig.net/ 50% Off All Shared Hosting Plans at PilotPig: Use Coupon DOW10000 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php