RE: [PHP] E-Mail Verification - Yes, I know....

2009-04-29 Thread Bob McConnell
From: Simon > > There is no way to verify (without sending an email) if the email will > be received in a mailbox. Even that is not a valid test. Most spam filters will discard messages silently, that is without notifying either sender or recipient. So the only real verification is when you recei

Re: [PHP] E-Mail Verification - Yes, I know....

2009-04-29 Thread Simon
The SMTP or POP3 protocol (cant remember which) used to support the ability to connect to the server and verify if a username exists before delivering the mail. But this feature was abused and was used for spamming so it is now disabled on all major servers (it's probably disabled by default in al

Re: [PHP] E-Mail Verification - Yes, I know....

2009-04-28 Thread Stuart
2009/4/28 Per Jessen : > Stuart wrote: > >> 2009/4/28 Jay Blanchard : >>> 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

Re: [PHP] E-Mail Verification - Yes, I know....

2009-04-28 Thread Luke
2009/4/28 Jan G.B. > 2009/4/28 Luke : > > > > > > 2009/4/28 Jan G.B. > >> > >> 2009/4/28 Jay Blanchard : > >> > 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

Re: [PHP] E-Mail Verification - Yes, I know....

2009-04-28 Thread Jan G.B.
2009/4/28 Luke : > > > 2009/4/28 Jan G.B. >> >> 2009/4/28 Jay Blanchard : >> > 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

Re: [PHP] E-Mail Verification - Yes, I know....

2009-04-28 Thread Hawx
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:40:31 -0500, "Jay Blanchard" 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; >

Re: [PHP] E-Mail Verification - Yes, I know....

2009-04-28 Thread Luke
2009/4/28 Jan G.B. > 2009/4/28 Jay Blanchard : > > 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; > > >

Re: [PHP] E-Mail Verification - Yes, I know....

2009-04-28 Thread Per Jessen
Stuart wrote: > 2009/4/28 Jay Blanchard : >> 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://ve

Re: [PHP] E-Mail Verification - Yes, I know....

2009-04-28 Thread Jan G.B.
2009/4/28 Jay Blanchard : > 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/ > > Whi

Re: [PHP] E-Mail Verification - Yes, I know....

2009-04-28 Thread Stuart
Btw, if you're thinking of buying it lemme know - I probably have mine kicking around somewhere. 2009/4/28 Jay Blanchard : > 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 al

Re: [PHP] E-Mail Verification - Yes, I know....

2009-04-28 Thread Daniel Brown
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

Re: [PHP] E-Mail Verification - Yes, I know....

2009-04-28 Thread Daniel Brown
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:40, Jay Blanchard 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:

Re: [PHP] E-Mail Verification - Yes, I know....

2009-04-28 Thread Stuart
2009/4/28 Jay Blanchard : > 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/ > > Whi

[PHP] E-Mail Verification - Yes, I know....

2009-04-28 Thread Jay Blanchard
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