Re:Valid Email Addresses
by nthitz on Friday November 30, 2012 @02:54PM
(#4855110)
Just because [email protected] is valid according to the RFC does not mean xyz.com is an existing domain name with a mail server setup that an account 'myname', let alone that user who inputted actually has access to that account. Just send a validation email
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You are confusing "valid email address" with "a valid email address, functioning mail server and user with appropriate credentials to access the system that processes email for the supplied email address."
Re:Valid Email Addresses
by randallsquared on Friday November 30, 2012 @04:14PM
(#4855485)
What you quoted was "valid user's email address", not "valid email address". While "valid email address" is arguable, a "valid user"'s email address is more clearly about whether it accepts mail. :)