<div dir="ltr">Yes you can prob mail providers and determine if the email is valid, but they may lie. I believe AOL replies yes to any request, at least they used to.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Alison <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:penguin@alisoncc.com" target="_blank">penguin@alisoncc.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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When you pay for on-line purchases via PayPal, it does a 'simulated' transaction for a dollar to verify the accuracy of the data entered. In checking the mail log for my mail server - Postfix/Dovecot, when I send emails there is a message from the remote server confirming the validity of the address. As most registration faculties require an email address, would it not be difficult to do something similar to PayPal in checking whether the remote mail server for the email address will accept the emails for the address entered before processing the registration. Just a thought.<br>
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At 12:07 AM 08-04-14, you wrote:<br>
>I tried Honeypot, and it indeed cut down the number of false<br>
>applications by about 80%. I could easily put in a field that legitimate<br>
>users could fill in correctly, but spammers could not. But how could I<br>
>check this and automatically cancel applications with bad information<br>
>for that field? For example, on one site for a fraternity, I asked for<br>
>the street address of the fraternity.<br>
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>Jim<br>
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>On 4/7/14, 8:00 AM, <a href="mailto:support-request@drupal.org">support-request@drupal.org</a> wrote:<br>
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>> Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 07:28:40 -0400<br>
>> From: <a href="mailto:Philip_Wetzel@nhd.uscourts.gov">Philip_Wetzel@nhd.uscourts.gov</a><br>
>> Subject: Re: [support] Many false applications for accounts<br>
>> To: <a href="mailto:support@drupal.org">support@drupal.org</a><br>
>> Cc: <a href="mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org">support-bounces@drupal.org</a>, <a href="mailto:wdlists@gmail.com">wdlists@gmail.com</a><br>
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>> <<a href="mailto:OFF8EAD2B1.CAE81554-ON85257CB3.003ED071-85257CB3.003F0DAD@uscmail.uscourts.gov">OFF8EAD2B1.CAE81554-ON85257CB3.003ED071-85257CB3.003F0DAD@uscmail.uscourts.gov</a>><br>
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>> The CAPTCHA code has been broken a number of times and they've<br>
>> re-engineered it. If it's not currently effective, they'll probably come<br>
>> up<br>
>> with a fix. The game goes on.<br>
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