Plugins - Email Veracity Plugin
Add to favoritesA model validation plugin that checks not just email well-formedness but also that the domain name is valid and has an MX record.
This will mostly likely be useful on User models.
http://rails.savvica.com/2007/11/6/email-veracity-plugin
http://svn.savvica.com/public/plugins/validates_email_veracity_of/
Rails' (MIT)
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Seems if your going to basically steal the ruby code from:
http://www.mslater.com/2007/7/2/validating-email-addresses
You should at least pay him credit for his work.
Bad.. Bad..
Very nice
Nice! The domain lookup is key. Well done.
Very useful indeed...