verify email availability

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I have to write a program to verify email address availability. i have to
verify thousand of email address. is there any way to verify the email in
..net instead. the requirement is to verify which email valid or invalid
 
I have to write a program to verify email address availability. i have to
verify thousand of email address. is there any way to verify the email in
.net instead. the requirement is to verify which email valid or invalid
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Why? Are you trying to verify email addresses before you add them to
your spam list?

Thanks,

Seth Rowe
 
Grey said:
I have to write a program to verify email address availability. i have
to verify thousand of email address. is there any way to verify the
email in .net instead. the requirement is to verify which email valid
or invalid
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You need to run through a couple stages:

1. Check for the e-mail format. This can be done with regular expressions
2. Check for the existence of the domain - this can be done with DNS look
ups
3. Send an e-mail to the domain to see if the servers are valid
4. Finally, have a user click on a return like to verify ownership of the
e-mail address.

So basically depending on your needs, you may use some or all of the
methods above.

There are also commercial components which have encapsulated the above
checks.
 
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