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Verify an E-Mail Address

15 October 2007 4 Comments

I’ve always wondered if this were possible, after all an e-mail address doesn’t have an IP which you could ping and see if it actually did exist. But surprisingly, one can indeed validate an address without sending an e-mail to it.

The Lifehacker blog has a post about a service that connects to the respective e-mail server and checks if the user, format, and domain that form the e-mail address you specify do actually exist. I concocted five fake e-mail addresses and checked their validity using this service. The service was spot on and gave a “bad Request” message for each. This just might come in handy so worth including in < my del.icio.us account. (via Lifehacker)

Verify Email Address

4 Comments »

  • anuradha said:

    this actually works.

    - 27 October 2007 at 11:32 pm
  • Manu Khanna said:

    Yup, it does.

    - 28 October 2007 at 1:31 am
  • wesley said:

    i am not getting to send messages

    - 27 February 2008 at 4:22 am
  • Manu Khanna said:

    wesley, this service allows you to verify an e-mail address, and not send messages,

    - 28 February 2008 at 1:24 am