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V Manikandan
V Manikandan

Reputation: 370

how to validate email whether is active or not using validate_email module in python

I used validate_email module in python to check whether a user's email id is exist or not for my web application. But it returns True always.

here is my code

from validate_email import validate_email
is_valid = validate_email('[email protected]',check_mx=True) #Checking if the host has SMPT Server

Then i tried

from validate_email import validate_email
is_valid = validate_email('[email protected]',verify=True) # Checking if the host has SMPT Server and the email really exists

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1481

Answers (1)

Aaron Digulla
Aaron Digulla

Reputation: 328556

There is no way to check whether an email address really exists. Mail servers simply don't return this information anymore (because spammers used it to collect lists of recipients that way).

Even actually sending a mail doesn't help since most mail server will accept such mail and then throw it away.

Upvotes: 3

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