Is it possible to check if the email account is exist or not?

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does anyone know how to check if the email account entered is actually exist or not ....???

Posted 20-Oct-13 4:49am

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Dave Kreskowiak · Answer 1 · 2013-10-20T08:46:00

Solution 4

It's also utterly pointless to check as you have no idea if the mailbox, though it may exist, is even attended to by a human being.

Posted 20-Oct-13 8:46am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 20-Oct-13 21:25pm

Surprising view of the problem, but turns out to be a great point. My 5.
—SA

OriginalGriff · Answer 2 · 2013-10-20T04:56:00

You can't, except by sending an email to it and requiring a "follow this link" click back to your website, usually with a query string to identify which email it was. And even then, you have no guarantee that the email address is still valid ten minutes later - there are services which give you a valid email for ten minutes to cope with sites that require registration but you don't want to be bombarded with rubbish.

There are mechanisms which look like they should work, such as requiring a "read response" so so forth, but they are entirely at the discretion of the software the user is reading emails with, and most ask the user for confirmation before sending it.

Sad, but true: this is down to spammers, who have abused every mechanism so far in order to identify "live" email accounts and target them...so legitimate needs no longer work either.

Ranjan.D · Answer 3 · 2013-10-20T04:59:00

Solution 2

Depends on the Email Service Provider.

Please check the below article which checks whether gmail account exists or not.

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/kirtan007/check-if-email-address-really-exist-or-not-using-C-Sharp/[^]

Posted 20-Oct-13 4:59am

Ranjan.D

ridoy · Answer 4 · 2013-10-20T08:24:00

Solution 3

Check:
How to check the givem email address exists or not using ASP.NET?[^]
Email Verify using VB.NET (Check if Email Address Exists).[^]
Is there a way to test if an E-Mail address exists without sending a test mail? [^]

Posted 20-Oct-13 8:24am

ridoy