How to check for valid email address? [duplicate]

Answer 1

I haven't seen the answer already here among the mess of custom Regex answers, but...

There exists a python library called py3-validate-email validate_email which has 3 levels of email validation, including asking a valid SMTP server if the email address is valid (without sending an email).

To install

python -m pip install py3-validate-email

Basic usage:

from validate_email import validate_email
is_valid = validate_email(email_address='example@example.com', \
    check_regex=True, check_mx=True, \
    from_address='my@from.addr.ess', helo_host='my.host.name', \ 
    smtp_timeout=10, dns_timeout=10, use_blacklist=True)

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For those interested in the dirty details, validate_email.py (source) aims to be faithful to RFC 2822.

All we are really doing is comparing the input string to one gigantic regular expression. But building that regexp, and ensuring its correctness, is made much easier by assembling it from the "tokens" defined by the RFC. Each of these tokens is tested in the accompanying unit test file.

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you may need the pyDNS module for checking SMTP servers

pip install pyDNS

or from Ubuntu

apt-get install python3-dns