Hotmail Email Validation

Hey ,

i wanna check if it's a hotmail email something like this : [email protected]
which hotmail.com is the domain

i use this RegularExpressions to check if it's valid

Code:

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If (System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.IsMatch(txtemail.Text, "^[a-zA-Z][\w\.-]*[a-zA-Z0-9]@[a-zA-Z0-9][\w\.-]*[a-zA-Z0-9]\.[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z\.]*[a-zA-Z]$") = True) Then
            MsgBox("Yep")
        Else
            MsgBox("Not")
        End If

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i wanna check if it's valid hotmail.com account

Thanks

Replace everything after the @ in your regex with hotmail.com

Hey,

If I am not mistaken, the OP wants to verify that the hotmail address is actually real, i.e. if you were to send an email to [email protected], would it actually get there, i.e. has someone created that email address.

I am not aware of an "easy" way of verifying whether an email address actually exists, just that the email address is well-formed.

Gary

To check for the existence of an email account, you have to establish a connection to the server and send an RCPT command using smtp protocol. Read the server's reply and determine if the account is valid or not.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by stanav

To check for the existence of an email account, you have to establish a connection to the server and send an RCPT command using smtp protocol. Read the server's reply and determine if the account is valid or not.

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Yip, so not an "easy" thing to do :)