From 0a1e1729d970049ade6ebc84558500e23bc10ed7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: BlackEagle Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 08:42:54 +0100 Subject: valid_email :: check if domain part is real this can be used as an intermediate 'patch' util there is a validation system in place. the extra check is to verify that the domain part of a correctly formatted email address is existing and in use. this will not at all stop spammers since they can use bogus emails with valid domain parts Lukas: Minor formatting changes. Signed-off-by: Lukas Fleischer --- web/lib/aur.inc.php | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'web') diff --git a/web/lib/aur.inc.php b/web/lib/aur.inc.php index c662b80..7c92bb6 100644 --- a/web/lib/aur.inc.php +++ b/web/lib/aur.inc.php @@ -80,7 +80,18 @@ function check_sid($dbh=NULL) { # verify that an email address looks like it is legitimate # function valid_email($addy) { - return (filter_var($addy, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL) !== false); + // check against RFC 3696 + if (filter_var($addy, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL) === false) { + return false; + } + + // check dns for mx, a, aaaa records + list($local, $domain) = explode('@', $addy); + if (!(checkdnsrr($domain, 'MX') || checkdnsrr($domain, 'A') || checkdnsrr($domain, 'AAAA'))) { + return false; + } + + return true; } # a new seed value for mt_srand() -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2