email_quality¶ ↑

• github.com/drmark/email_quality

DESCRIPTION:¶ ↑

This gem checks an email address for validity and identifies if it is from a Disposable Email Address (DEA) provider. Disposable email addresses are useful for privacy, but many sites wish to control access when using a DEA. Future versions of this gem will score the email address based on the type of domain that is used.

FEATURES/PROBLEMS:¶ ↑

* Check to see if an email domain matches a pattern for validity checking
* Check to see if the domain is one of the DEA domains
* Return a score for the domain based on its type (trash email, shredder email, free email, etc.) (TODO)
* Return errors to allow you to decide how to handle the address

SYNOPSIS:¶ ↑

require 'email_quality'

# I consider the free email addresses to be acceptable. This will eventually be configurable
address = EmailQuality::Address.new('valid@gmail.com')

address.valid?
# => true

address.domain.to_s
# => 'gmail.com'

address.is_open_email?
# => true

# This is a disposable email address
address = EmailQuality::Address.new('notvalid@mailinator.com')

address.valid?
# => false   # because it is a DEA

address.errors
# => [:blacklisted]

address.is_trash_email?
# => true

address.is_disposable_email?
# => true

REQUIREMENTS:¶ ↑

• none

INSTALL:¶ ↑

• sudo gem install drmark-email_quality

THANKS:¶ ↑

• Thanks to the creators of the email_veracity gem. I am building upon their work. This will eventually be a substantially different project from that gem.

LICENSE:¶ ↑

(The MIT License)

Copyright © 2009 FIXME full name

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