[support] Block users with invalid email

Earnie Boyd earnie at users.sourceforge.net
Tue Jul 17 13:34:51 UTC 2012


Maybe start with http://drupal.org/project/bounce_handler which
doesn't contain an active release but
http://drupal.org/node/1145398/release shows a 6.x-1.x-dev release.
You could use it to begin your coding.

Earnie

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Matthias Fechner <idefix at fechner.net> wrote:
> Dear drupal users,
>
> I have a site with some 1000 users which is now up for a very long time.
> I want to clean-up the user database and delete (or block) all users
> with an invalid email.
>
> For this I thought about a script that connects to the mail server of
> the entered email address and check with a MAIL FROM/RCPT TO if the
> email address is valid.
> In case it is not, block or delete the user.
>
> Before I now start to hack a little script for this, is there maybe
> already something available, I can use?
>
> Thanks,
> Matthias
>
> --
> "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to
> build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to
> produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." --
> Rich Cook
>
> --
> [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]



-- 
Earnie
-- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd


More information about the support mailing list