In an older post we talked about checking the validity of an email address. Now let’s make a php function to automate this task. We can use this type of validation to check for example if a user is using a correct address when registering for a service.
Tag: validation
Check if an email address is valid – the telnet way
You can use telnet to check if an email is valid. You can actually send emails via telnet, but we’ll stick to checking for now. Remember that this is not a string validation but a complete check with the mail server if the user is valid. For this example we will use [email protected]