On 6/27/11 Mon Jun 27, 2011 12:14 PM, "[email protected]"
<[email protected]> scribbled:
> On Jun 27, 2011, at 12:04 PM, Jim Gibson wrote:
>
>> 'perldoc -q address' "How do I check a valid mail address?"
>
> Thanks, Jim, I'm reading that now. However, after glancing at it, I may not
> have been clear in what I actually want. I'm looking to see if it's valid as
> far as preventing an e-mail from bouncing because of a non-existant account,
> bad domain, etc.
Yes. That is the problem addressed by the FAQ:
"How do I check a valid mail address?
(partly contributed by Aaron Sherman)
This isn't as simple a question as it sounds. There are two parts:
a) How do I verify that an email address is correctly formatted?
b) How do I verify that an email address targets a valid recipient?
Without sending mail to the address and seeing whether there's a human
on the other end to answer you, you cannot fully answer part b, but
either the "Email::Valid" or the "RFC::RFC822::Address" module will do
both part a and part b as far as you can in real-time."
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