4 ms·

If someone's buying something from my site, I'm not going to send them a validation email during the checkout process. Something like this greatly reduces the

• jfb 13y ago
  But no validation in the world will catch that. Only a round-trip email would. EDIT: I was wrong. Interesting.
  • adw 13y ago
    ... not with 100% accuracy, but it's totally plausible that you can do substantially better than random (or a simple regex). So there is incremental value here.
  • chaz 13y ago
    That's the point: Mailgun's Validation API does catch that joe@yahoo.cm is incorrect and suggests a correction. Try it: http://mailgun.github.io/validator-demo/ http://mailgun.github.io/validator-demo/
    • janekk 13y ago
      I see that as the only valuable part of this service, and I can instead use it statically via mailcheck JavaScript: https://github.com/Kicksend/mailcheck https://github.com/Kicksend/mailcheck
      • IlPeach 13y ago
        thanks for the link. this is actually true considering the email validation embedded in HTML5.