karolyi/py3-validate-email: Check if an email is valid with using SMTP, regexes and blacklists

Check if an email is valid with using SMTP, regexes and blacklists https://git.ksol.io/karolyi/py3-validate-email/

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README.rst

==============
Validate_email
==============

Validate_email is a package for Python that check if an email is valid, properly formatted and really exists.



INSTALLATION
============

First, you must do::

    pip install validate_email

Extra
------

For check the domain mx and verify email exits you must have the `pyDNS` package installed::

    pip install pyDNS


USAGE
=====

Basic usage::

    from validate_email import validate_email
    is_valid = validate_email('example@example.com')


Checking domain has SMTP Server
-------------------------------

Check if the host has SMTP Server::

    from validate_email import validate_email
    is_valid = validate_email('example@example.com',check_mx=True)


Verify email exists
-------------------

Check if the host has SMTP Server and the email really exists::

    from validate_email import validate_email
    is_valid = validate_email('example@example.com',verify=True)


TODOs and BUGS
==============
See: http://github.com/syrusakbary/validate_email/issues