Hi,

ahhh another email validation question.
First I just want to say that I did search on this topic and read all the possibilities. I understand that there is no complete regex to actually determine whether an e-mail address is valid/deliverable.

I'm making a simple news letter script and want to verify / taint the e-mail input field. I'm planning to use a validation code authentication method, where it will send a email to the subscriber asking him to click a link to validate his subscription.

The problem here is that since I'm using this "validation link" method, I only want to verify that an e-mail address is typed properly (I really don't want to use two e-mail address fields). That being said, I don't really care about if the e-mail address is actually deliverable. However, if someone decides to subscribe with his e-mail and the e-mail ends up bouncing then he would never receive the validation code. The thing with bounced e-mails is that an valid working e-mail can still bounce due to a error such as full mailbox. If the e-mail does bounce, is there anyway I can make my perl script notify the subscriber through html? --

In the end, I'm really leaning towards using Email::Valid w/out the DNS lookup.

Should I be choosing any other options/route? Perhaps Email::Valid::Loose is even better?

Thanks!! tanger

In reply to Yet Another E-mail Validation Question by tanger

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