All Emails Return as Valid.. about verifyemail

[dmorri]

Btw..Gmail seems to be good at allowing you to interrogate email itself (user), but yahoo does not for example or other domains I have tried.

[dmorri]

Any research on percentage of domains that you can successfully determine if an email really exists using this method of creating a socket (telnet) into the server and looking for a response)? Thanks!

[dmorri]

Here is an example [email protected] comes back valid, but it is not and if you try another program like http://www.email-validator.net/ it will tell you its rejected. So something is missing.

[hbattat]

From what I have researched there is no way to know from the server if the email is valid or not for servers that choose to return "valid" all the time.

Yahoo seems to be the biggest one out there. http://www.email-validator.net/ might be doing something special to validate.

I have added a special function to validate yahoo.com accounts. It is a hacky way and I'll be testing for sometime before it is definite. (Please see the last commit I made)

[dmorri]

Cool. It seems that invalid YAHOO.com emails still come back valid though. :-(

[hbattat]

I don't know what you are doing buddy, working fine for me, so if you cannot share more details I cannot help :(