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Rod Nelson
Rod Nelson

Reputation: 3331

Rails 3 Check to see if an email address is real

i want to check to see if a given email say for example (yourname@your_domain.com) most likely that exact email don't exist is there a way to ping the email address or anything along that along that idea?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4026

Answers (3)

kamilc
kamilc

Reputation: 96

You can use my gem: "email_verifier" that you can find here: https://github.com/kamilc/email_verifier

It gives you validator which connects with given mail server "asking" smtp server if there is given email address.

Upvotes: 7

Edmond Burnett
Edmond Burnett

Reputation: 5186

You can check if the address format is valid, but there is no effective, email-specific "Ping" or lookup that you can do, other then sending a verification e-mail containing a code or link which the users clicks on or enters on your site to verify their address.

Upvotes: 3

egrunin
egrunin

Reputation: 25053

You can't reliably verify email addresses without human intervention. That's why the most common method is to send the user a 'confirmation' email.

Upvotes: 7

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