email-validation

[Anon]

Hi.
I have a form in my script where the user fills in his/her email... Is there a way to check if this email actually excist, NOT just validate the syntax of the email-string ??

Please help me!

[nando]

Yah,

Visit the site http://phpclasses.upperdesign.com and search for mail validation

This is a class that uses POP3 connections to verify if the email address exists on the server

[Anon]

The closest you can get, afaik, is this:

function valid_email( $email)
{
$ok = TRUE;
$ok = eregi( "^{[_.0-9a-z-]+@([0-9a-z][0-9a-z-]+.)+[a-z]{2,3}$",} $email, $check);
$ok = getmxrr(substr(strstr($check[0], '@'), 1), $dummy);
if($ok === false) {
$host = substr($email, strpos($email, '@') + 1);
if(gethostbyname($host) != $host) {
$ok = true;
}
}
return $ok;
}