Stut wrote:
Or better, the MX record... :)
An MX record is not required to accept email for a domain. The relevant
RFC (can't recall the number right now) states that it should fall back
to using the A record if no MX record is present.
Excellent. That's my "new thing" learned for the day.
On 18 Sep 2008, at 09:44, Colin Guthrie wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
Lupus Michaelis wrote:
Richard Heyes a écrit :
New domain name extensions can be accounted for easily, eg:
\.(?:[a-z]){2,4}
It excludes .museum tld.
Don't make assumptions about which TLDs that are or are not allowed -
the
Per Jessen wrote:
Lupus Michaelis wrote:
Richard Heyes a écrit :
New domain name extensions can be accounted for easily, eg:
\.(?:[a-z]){2,4}
It excludes .museum tld.
Don't make assumptions about which TLDs that are or are not allowed -
the domain part of an email address could be vali
On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 09:59 -0400, Al wrote:
>
> Tom Chubb wrote:
> > Can anyone offer advice on best practices for email address verification?
> > Obviously for user registration it's common to click a link in your email to
> > complete the process thereby verifying the email, but if you want to
Tom Chubb wrote:
Can anyone offer advice on best practices for email address verification?
Obviously for user registration it's common to click a link in your email to
complete the process thereby verifying the email, but if you want to keep
things very simple for the end user, what are the bes
Michael,
Thanks for your help! Your advice entirely makes sense. Perhaps a good
way to use email verification is to alert the user that the address
could not be verified, but if they insist, they can still submit it.
This probably falls under the 90/10 rule... I'll spend 90% of my time
trying
Steven Walker wrote:
> Does anybody know any good ways (or available code) for verifying email
> addresses?
>
> Checking syntax is not enough.. I'd like to actually be able to test
> whether the email address exists.
Nothing is 100%, so don't exclude people because you can't verify them.
The
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