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Old March 3rd, 2003, 06:30 AM
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Question Validating an email address

Hello!

I am building an user area interface for a site. In registration form I need to validate if given email address actually exists. I already
check if email is approximately valid by searching for at least one occurence of '@' character and at least one occurence of '.' character, but I would like to check if the address actually exists too. How can I do that?

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Old March 3rd, 2003, 06:40 PM
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Old March 4th, 2003, 12:36 AM
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Ooops! I forgot to mention that I am using PHP code... However, as far as I've checked the manual, there is no finger-like ability in PHP...

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You can execute finger through php running on *nix by using system(). You can also do validation just as that link to the application that Selleri posted using PHP.
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