alexchardin

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   by alexchardin 10y ago

   Well, aside from webhooks or anything, Kickbox and its competitors seem to focus on checking if an email address exists based on DNS and SMTP pings. This is valuable, but I want to be able to know for sure that 1. the email is "real&qu
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   by alexchardin 10y ago

   Understood on the privacy concerns. Good point. Agreed that the Callback URL is definitely preferable, if the consuming application has a backend (Lambda or more substantial). Thanks!
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   by alexchardin 10y ago

   Thanks for the reply. I was thinking either pinging or some sort of a "check" button that the user would click/tap (e.g. Cloudflare's button to check the status of NS transfers). Not the smoothest part of the idea. This
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   Ask HN: Would you see value in a “verify email” API?

   11 points by alexchardin 10y ago|10 comments