Stuart wrote: > 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. verify-email.org doesn't use VRFY anyway. It just starts an SMTP-conversation, but terminates after RCPT TO. /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (8.2°C) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
