Hotmail Email Validation

[killer7k]

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

 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

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

Thanks

[Negative0]

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

[gep13]

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

[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.

[gep13]

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.

Yip, so not an "easy" thing to do