Re: Checking to see if an email address is valid... (non reg-ex)
Mark Space wrote:
Peter L. Berghold wrote:
In Perl there exists a module called Email::Valid that allows you to do
this. Is there such a thing in the Java world?
I'm sorry, I don't know if there is a Java module to do this or not.
It might be faster and easier to check this in Javascript (on the
client) rather than post the data back to the server for a check. This
couldn't be hard to code up quick. Heck, I might even try it for fun... ^_^
Client side validation is only good to let the user know they have made
a mistake, but server side validation is a must in all cases.
Either way, there is truely only one way to validate an e-mail address.
Send a message to it. You can validate the syntax of the e-mail
address, but that doesn't mean its valid.
The best ways to cut down on spammers are to use some form of Captcha.
Although I'm sure automated programs will get more sophisticated with
regards to Captcha, it will still be effective against the majority of
spammers.
Hope this helps.
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