Renee,
I'm pretty rusty at programming, but I'm not sure if what you are
trying to do is reasonable. (check an email address to see if it is
valid)
If you try this with my email server, it is using greylisting, so your
first attempt would be greeted with "temporary failure - come back
later". You would need to make a delivery attempt an hour later for
it to actually be accepted. I'm pretty sure the main mail.msu.edu
still uses greylisting, and it is a popular strategy with all email
servers.
Looking at your code, maybe you are just trying to tell if the
hostname has an SMTP server there, not really checking the actual
email address? That might be reasonable to check.
-John
PS - you might try a fsocketopen("msu.edu",25 ....) to make sure a
simple case works first (on your server).
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> On Apr 29, 2009, at 2:44 PM, Renee Starkey wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> I am trying to use fsockopen() php function to check a valid email
>> address. Here is a code snippet:
>>
>> function checkEmail($email) {
>> if(eregi("^[a-zA-Z0-9_]+@[a-zA-Z0-9\-]+\.[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+$]",
>> $email)) {
>> return FALSE;
>> }
>> list($Username, $Domain) = split("@",$email);
>> if(getmxrr($Domain, $MXHost)) {
>> return TRUE;
>> } else {
>> if(fsockopen($Domain,25,$errno,$errstr,30)) {
>> return TRUE;
>> } else {
>> return FALSE;
>> }
>> }
>> }
>> Here is the error from the browser:
>>
>> Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]:
>> php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not
>> known in file name line...
>>
>> Here is the failing on the if(fsockopen($Domain,25,$errno,$errstr,
>> 30)) line. Does anyone out there have any experience with this
>> error?? I am using a LAMP server.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Renee Starkey @}-----}-----
>> Information Technologist I
>> 115 Old Horticulture
>> Language Learning Center, Michigan State University
>> Phone: 517-355-7587
>>
>>
>> Renee Starkey ;-)
>> "Strive to be the best you can be at any given moment in life" RmS
>>
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