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Discussion on: How to validate an email address in JavaScript

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Thomas Schlage

There are possibilities to validate if an email exists without sending an email. Your backend can open a socket the the email server of the email address and ask for the address. I'm not 100% sure if there could be a bouncer rule based on the content but it ensures at least that the given email address accepts emails from your server.

Here is an telnet example for this: webdigi.co.uk/blog/2009/how-to-che...