validate-email-wt 1.4.6

validate_email verifies if an email address is valid and really exists.

Validate_email is a package for Python that check if an email is valid, properly formatted and really exists.

INSTALLATION

First, you must do:

pip install validate-email-wt

Extra

For check the domain mx and verify email exits you must have the pyDNS package installed:

pip install pyDNS

USAGE

Basic usage:

from validate_email import validate_email
is_valid = validate_email('[e-mail]')

Checking domain has SMTP Server

Check if the host has SMTP Server:

from validate_email import validate_email
is_valid = validate_email('[e-mail]',check_mx=True)

Verify email exists

Check if the host has SMTP Server and the email really exists:

from validate_email import validate_email
is_valid = validate_email('[e-mail]',verify=True)

Verify email exists on a server that implements callback verfication

Check if the host has SMTP Server and the email really exists:

from validate_email import validate_email
is_valid = validate_email('[e-mail]',verify=True,sending_email="[e-mail]")

[e-mail] must be a valid e-mail that you control.

For information on callback verification see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callback_verification

Don’t allow your users to register with disposable emails

Checks are performed against this version of the listing: https://github.com/martenson/disposable-email-domains/tree/4efb0b0ed43022a78abc768c4f28ba7ed7a37772

from validate_email import validate_email is_valid = validate_email(”[e-mail]”, allow_disposable=False) assert not is_valid

TODOs and BUGS

See: http://github.com/syrusakbary/validate_email/issues