Helper validation utility for checking whether given email address is real or not. Many times as developers we've put in our models statements for checking email address format. This gem will complete your existing setups with validator that actually connects with given mail server and asks if given email address exists for real.
New: Now it supports Heroku!
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'email_verifier'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install email_verifier
To get info about realness of given email address, email_verifier connects with mail server that email's domain points to and pretends to send an email.
Some smtp servers will not allow you to do this if you will not present yourself as some real user. So first thing you'd need to set up is to put something like this either in initializer or in application.rb file:
EmailVerifier.config do |config|
config.verifier_email = "[email protected]"
end
Add these lines to your locale file in config/locales (you can customize messages)
it:
errors:
messages:
email_verifier:
email_not_real: must point to a real mail account
out_of_mail_server: appears to point to dead mail server
no_mail_server: appears to point to domain which doesn't handle e-mail
failure: could not be checked if is real
exception: could not be sent
Then just put this in your model e. g:
validates_email_realness_of :email
Or - if you'd like to use it outside of your models:
EmailValidator.check(youremail)
This method will return true or false, or - will throw exception with nicely detailed info about what's wrong.
Still Rails 3+ only but compatibility with anything in the pipeline.
Email Verifier is maintained and funded by End Point Corporation
Please send questions to [email protected]
- Fork it
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature') - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature) - Create new Pull Request