How can I make sure email entered is real?

  • aofmarketing

    (@aofmarketing)


    8 years, 9 months ago

    Hello there, I’m running into a problem with Email validation. I thought the question was straight forward but I’m having a hard time finding what I need.

    Someone recently filled out a form and submitted, using @yyahoo.comuewy as the end of their email. Obviously that is a fake email and not a valid lead for my employer.

    Is there a way to make sure the email is actually real before they submit? Thanks in advance for any help!

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/

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  • Thread Starter aofmarketing

    (@aofmarketing)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    Hi all,

    I was doing some research and found that the best and really only way to validate an email is checking for @ and . along with invalid characters, which is what the form already seems to be doing. There are so many variations on domains and extensions that it’s impossible to filter without excluding someone. The email above is obviously fake but I suppose that we have to deal with fake submissions like that.

    Is this the case? Does anyone know a better way?

    For reference, I read this helpful answer on stackoverflow:
    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/201323/using-a-regular-expression-to-validate-an-email-address

    Jason Hendriks

    (@jasonhendriks)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    The Postman SMTP plugin provides e-mail validation using RFC-compliant regex and live MX testing. When I tried your email address above I received:

    Invalid e-mail address: test@yyahoo.comuewy

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