in reply to Re: On Validating Email Addresses
in thread On Validating Email Addresses

If they do not want to receive it, then typing some spurious addy, like a@b.com, will satisfy most simplistic checks. I don't know which poor blighter has the email addy a@b.com, but they must recieve a sh^H^H lot of junk they never asked for.

A lot of people don't seem to know about m!^example\.(?:com|org|net)!. These domains are specifically meant for documentation and such, and therefore are perfect for fake email addresses (foobar@example.com for example). There are no MX records for these domains, nor is there anything listening on port 25. So as long as you're giving this value to a program that doesn't check for an MX record, these domains are perfect -- they are fake, and at the same time, you're not chancing giving someone's real email address and getting them spam'ed to death.

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Re^3: On Validating Email Addresses
by data64 (Chaplain) on Jan 05, 2005 at 06:49 UTC

    There are no MX records for these domains,

    I use me@privacy.net instead. See this for more info.

    The other approach, especially for one time registrations, is to use something like the Mailinator (unfortunately it seems to be down right now)

      Try dodgeit.com - working for me.