checkmail

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checkmail

checkmail is a simple go package to check the validity of an email, it can check:

• Format
• Domain validity
• Mailbox existance, by checking the user and mailbox host

Install

go get -u github.com/loopcontext/checkmail

Example

Check email format

email := "email@email.com"
err := ValidateFormat(email)
if err != nil {
    fmt.Printf(`"%s" -> format error: %q`, mail, err)
}
// Send email ...

Check the host and email existance

email := "email@email.com"
err := ValidateHost(email)
if err != nil {
    fmt.Printf(`"%s" -> host error: %q`, mail, err)
}
// Send email ...

Documentation

Index

• Variables
• func ValidateFormat(email string) error
• func ValidateHost(email string) error
• type STMPError
  • func NewSMTPError(err error) STMPError
  • func (e STMPError) Code() string
  • func (e STMPError) Error() string

Variables

var (
	ErrBadFormat        = errors.New("invalid format")
	ErrUnresolvableHost = errors.New("unresolvable host")
)

Error vars

Functions

func ValidateFormat

func ValidateFormat(email string) error

ValidateFormat validates email format

func ValidateHost

func ValidateHost(email string) error

ValidateHost validates host

Types

type STMPError

type STMPError struct {
	Err error
}

STMPError describes an error from the SMTP server

func NewSMTPError

func NewSMTPError(err error) STMPError

NewSMTPError creates a new STMPError instance

func (STMPError) Code

func (e STMPError) Code() string

Code Status code

func (STMPError) Error

func (e STMPError) Error() string