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How to check emailaddress is exists / not?
Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 1:22 am
by php-pandit
Hello,
What is the simplest way and how to check whether a given email address (or domain for this email) exists?
PLZ Help me out
Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 1:39 am
by RobertGonzalez
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Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 1:41 am
by dibyendrah
You can do this by checkdnsrr function.
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// take a given email address and split it into the username and domain.
list($userName, $mailDomain) = split("@", $email);
if (checkdnsrr($mailDomain, "MX")) {
// this is a valid email domain!
}
else {
// this email domain doesn't exist!
}
Cheers,
Dibyendra