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swdeveloper
swdeveloper

Reputation: 918

Is there any way to check, in PHP, that whether any email is active or not?

Is there any way to check (through PHP) that whether any given email address is active (means is it currently being used & opened by anyone) or not (means it is blocked or no one uses/opens it, it's inactive)?
Regards & Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1717

Answers (3)

Pekka
Pekka

Reputation: 449823

Is there any way to check (through PHP) that whether any given email address is active (means is it currently being used & opened by anyone) or not (means it is blocked or no one uses/opens it, it's inactive)?

No.

The only way to be sure is to send an E-Mail to the address, not get a bounce message, and get some kind of reply back (like an answer, or the user clicking a unique link in the E-Mail, or an image with a unique URL being opened [this is frowned upon though, and blocked by many E-Mail clients], or a read receipt). None of these methods is foolproof, though, so you can never tell for 100% sure.

Upvotes: 3

Tirth Bodawala
Tirth Bodawala

Reputation: 73

I think you are asking if the email user enters is valid or not!! if this is the case then you should use nslookup for unix-based operating system with help of exec.. here is a small function for that: (i am checking if the domain is correct or not)

function myCheckDNSRR($email)
{
      list($userName, $hostName) = split("@", $email); 
$recType = '';
if(!empty($hostName)) {
   if( $recType == '' ) $recType = "MX";

   exec("nslookup -type=$recType $hostName", $result);
   // check each line to find the one that starts with the host
   // name. If it exists then the function succeeded.

   foreach ($result as $line) {
     if(eregi("^$hostName",$line)) {
       return true;
     }
   }
   // otherwise there was no mail handler for the domain
   return false;
}
return false;

}

Upvotes: 2

Eric Herlitz
Eric Herlitz

Reputation: 26307

You can but have to use an API to an external service

There are a few email validation api's out there, data8 got one. http://www.data-8.co.uk/integr8/services/email_validation.aspx

Here is a sample

function IsValid($email, $level)
{
  $params = array(
    "username" => "your-username",
    "password" => "your-password",
    "email" => $email,
    "level" => $level,
    "options" => $options
  );
  $client = new SoapClient("http://webservices.data-8.co.uk/EmailValidation.asmx?WSDL");
  $result = $client->IsValid($params);
  if ($result->IsValidResult->Status->Success == 0)
  {
    echo "Error: " . $result->IsValidResult->Status->ErrorMessage;
  }
  else
  {
    // TODO: Process method results here.
    // Results can be extracted from the following fields:
    // $result->IsValidResult->Result
    //   Contains a status code indicating if the email address could be validated.
  }
}

Upvotes: 0

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