Re: RegularExpressionValidator and fake email addresses

James Hearne <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.windows.devel.dotnet.web
Message-ID <[email protected]>
No, this isn't applicable. I don't want to send out any email. I just want
to check if the provided email address does exist or not.
How can I do that?

/James

On 5/24/07, Paul van Brenk <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Send an email to confirm their subscription.. all addresses that are not
> yet confirmed are not valid and deleted after 48 hrs?
>
> Paul
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion of building .NET applications targeted for the Web
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Hearne
> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 15:48
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [DOTNET-WEB] RegularExpressionValidator and fake email addresses
>
> Hi gurus,
> in our web site we often receive a lot of feedback from fake email
> addresses, like [email protected]; people sign up to our newsletter using
> fake addresses too.
> Very bad...
> In each page used to enter email addresses we have already inserted
> a RegularExpressionValidator which works quite well; the problem is that
> email addresses like the aforementioned one are actually valid ones!
>
> Could you point me to the right direction?
> Thanks.
>
> /James
>
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