I'm guessing that you don't mean "ping" to be taken literally in "ping the email address" because that's not what ping does. It may be feasible to ping the email server you're checking up on, but I've never heard of any way to ping an account ( - :-) - that admission may even prompt some wiser and more knowledgeable soul to post code to refute my belief!).

So maybe you should think about finger or another appropriate tool.

But,just as "cutting off the dog's tail by inches" is unnecessarily painful for the dog, I suspect verifying the existance of any particular email address -- EXCEPT BY requiring the owner to respond -- is going to be far more painful for you and your organization than "just doing it right in the first place;" i.e., "have email verification integrated" now.

As to downsides to the ping scheme, they include

  1. delay
  2. failure
        and, of course,
  3. the inadequacy of that method of determining the validity of the email address used for account creation.

In reply to Re^3: Mail::Verify or Mail::CheckUser for Email Verification? by ww
in thread Mail::Verify or Mail::CheckUser for Email Verification? by newbie00

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