if (empty($mx_records)) return false;
$domain = "gmail.com"; if (domainExists($domain)) echo "Domain has valid mail records."; else echo "Domain cannot receive emails.";
In the world of web development, email validation is often treated as a solved problem. A quick copy-paste of a regular expression—a terrifying string of characters looking like a cat walked across a keyboard—and the job is done, right?
Don't get bogged down trying to validate if the specific mailbox exists via SMTP; the easiest and most reliable validation method is simply to . If the user clicks the link inside, the email is valid. Everything else is just a heuristic.
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