check error for send email

[hung pham]

Hi,

Is there any way to check if I send to an incorrect email address.

My script look like this:

Set capture error (on)

Send mail()

Setfield gErrorNumber = Status(currentError)

where gErrorNumber is Global Number

The result of gErrorNumber is always zero even I did send to an invalid email address

Thanks in advance

HP

[Kurt Knippel]

How does Filemaker know that the address is invalid?

E-mail is more like a fast version of normal mail. You send a message then wait. Sometime later either the person will respond or the server will send back some kind of error message.

Filemaker maker is no longer in the picture at this point.

Now if you were using Filemaker for both incoming and outgoing e-mail, then you might be able to setup some kind of system where you parse the incoming messages and see if they are and error message from an e-mail server.

[ July 29, 2001: Message edited by: CaptKurt ]

[Vaughan]

About the only thing you can do is validate the hell out of the field to make sure the entry is potentially correct.

Kurt is correct in that FMP is out of the picture once the send mail step is performed: if the message was correctly sent to the mail server then there is no error. There is no way of knowing if the mail server then finds the address is bad (this can take from seconds to days) so there is no way to trap for it.

About the only really robust way is to implement a verification scheme where people actually post you a message from the address, or you post one to them and they have to follow it up. This is pretty easy to do with Web Companion -- a lot of work but easy to do.

[eremaut]

Hi,

About this "hell out" validation. I've extracted a part of our more complex validation system on our email field.

It's a subscript called Check_Single_EmailSyntax:

Set Field [ gCheck_Email, "N_OK" ] -> this is used by the caller module

If [ Right( Trim( gEmail); 1) = "