RE: Validating email addresses

["Mark Allen" <markallen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Can I a DNS lookup inside an RPGLE or CL program????

Mark Allen
IS Manager
Kelly's Kids
markallen@kellyskids.com

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
[mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of David Gibbs
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 6:28 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Validating email addresses


At 06:05 PM 06/29/2000, you wrote:
>         You should be able to do a DNS lookup to validated the e-mail
> domain.

Make sure, however, that you don't just look for the IP address of the
domain ... many domains do not have a IP address, just a MX or Mail
eXchanger record.

MIDRANGE.COM operated that way for years before the web page went online.

david

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