Hey.
Is there any python function that validates E-mail addresses, aware of IDN domains ? For instance, [email protected] should be as correct as user@zääz.de or user@納豆.ac.jp
Thanks.
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A:
It is very difficult to validate an e-mail address because the syntax is so flexible. The best strategy is to send a test e-mail to the entered address.
kindall
2010-09-27 18:44:13
A:
I think the best method is to open the mail server port via a HTTP Request adn see if it responds
web = httplib.HTTPConnection(domain, 25, timeout=5)
web.connect()
And check to see if that opens up.
RobertPitt
2010-09-27 18:48:18
This won't always work either. This method will look up the 'A' (address) record in DNS; however, this is often not the mail server. You need to get the 'MX' (mail exchange) record instead. The easiest way is, as @kindall said, to send an email to the address
lacqui
2010-09-27 18:51:39
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A:
Django supports IDN email validation as of version 1.2.
See the code for validation here: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk/django/core/validators.py
Reference: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/ref/forms/fields/#emailfield
Example:
Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Apr 16 2010, 13:57:41)
[GCC 4.4.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from django.core.validators import validate_email
>>> try: validate_email(u'[email protected]'); print "passed"
... except: print "failed"
...
passed
>>> try: validate_email(u'user@zääz.de'); print "passed"
... except: print "failed"
...
passed
>>> try: validate_email(u'user@納豆.ac.jp'); print "passed"
... except: print "failed"
...
passed
>>> try: validate_email(u'this-should-fail@@納豆.ac.jp'); print "passed"
... except: print "failed"
...
failed
You may need to define some environment settings before you can use Django modules, see documentation here: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/
vls
2010-09-27 18:55:19