Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: py3-validate-email
Version: 0.1.5
Summary: Email validator with regex and SMTP checking.
Home-page: http://github.com/karolyi/py3-validate-email
Author: László Károlyi
Author-email: laszlo@karolyi.hu
License: LGPL
Keywords: email validation verification mx verify
Platform: UNKNOWN
Description-Content-Type: text/x-rst
Requires-Dist: dnspython

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py3-validate-email
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py3-validate-email is a package for Python that check if an email is valid, properly formatted and really exists.

This module is for Python 3.6 and above!

INSTALLATION
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You can install the package with pip:

    pip install py3-validate-email


USAGE
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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, use_blacklist=True)

:code:`check_regex` will check will the email address has a valid structure and defaults to True

:code:`check_mx`: check the mx-records and check whether the email actually exists

:code:`from_address`: the email address the probe will be sent from,

:code:`helo_host`: the host to use in SMTP HELO when checking for an email,

:code:`smtp_timeout`: seconds until SMTP timeout

:code:`use_blacklist`: use the blacklist of domains downloaded from https://github.com/martenson/disposable-email-domains

TODOs and BUGS
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See: https://github.com/karolyi/py3-validate-email/issues


