Mail Validator

Description

The Mail Validator action checks if an email address is valid or not.

The checking process returns one result field (Boolean or String depending on your settings) and one additionnal field (String) containing errors string when email address is not valid.

This action must receive input stream and add result fields in this input stream.

Options

Option	Description
Workflow action name	The name of the workflow action.
email fieldname	Specify the name of the field that contains the email addresses to check. This field must be defined in a previous action. Dropdown the combo to select fieldname.
SMTP check?	By default, Hop will only check email address structure (using regular expression). If you want to perform a SMTP check, please select this option and fill Email sender (see after). Hop will extract domain name from the supplied email address (to check) and will try to get all exchangers from the domain name. Each exchanger will be queryed.
Time out	In order to perform a SMTP check, Hop will open a socket on the target SMTP host. Specify here the socket time out (by default 0).
Email sender	If you select "SMTP check?" option, this field is mandatory. Hop will need sender email address to query SMTP host.
Default SMTP server	If you know which SMTP server to query, please specify it here, Hop will then query only this one.
dynamic default SMTP?	IF you want to pass default SMTP server in a dynamic way, check this option.
Default SMTP field	If you select the previous option, you must fill this field. This field must be defined in a previous action. Dropdown the combo to select fieldname.
Result fieldname	Hop will store the result of the process in this field. The result will be Boolean (TRUE = the email address is valid, FALSE = the email address is unvalid) if "Result is a string" option is unchecked (see after).
Result is a string	This option will turn the ouput field into a String and when the email address is valid the output will contains the "Email is valid" field (see after) otherwise it will contains the "Email is not valid" field (see after).
Email is valid	If you selected the previous option, you must fill this field
Email is not valid	If you selected the previous option, you must fill this field
Errors field	When an email is address is unvalid, Hop return the reason. If you want to add it in the input stream, please give the field a name, otherwhise leave this field blank.

Option

Description

Workflow action name

The name of the workflow action.

email fieldname

Specify the name of the field that contains the email addresses to check. This field must be defined in a previous action. Dropdown the combo to select fieldname.

SMTP check?

By default, Hop will only check email address structure (using regular expression). If you want to perform a SMTP check, please select this option and fill Email sender (see after). Hop will extract domain name from the supplied email address (to check) and will try to get all exchangers from the domain name. Each exchanger will be queryed.

Time out

In order to perform a SMTP check, Hop will open a socket on the target SMTP host. Specify here the socket time out (by default 0).

Email sender

If you select "SMTP check?" option, this field is mandatory. Hop will need sender email address to query SMTP host.

Default SMTP server

If you know which SMTP server to query, please specify it here, Hop will then query only this one.

dynamic default SMTP?

IF you want to pass default SMTP server in a dynamic way, check this option.

Default SMTP field

If you select the previous option, you must fill this field. This field must be defined in a previous action. Dropdown the combo to select fieldname.

Result fieldname

Hop will store the result of the process in this field. The result will be Boolean (TRUE = the email address is valid, FALSE = the email address is unvalid) if "Result is a string" option is unchecked (see after).

Result is a string

This option will turn the ouput field into a String and when the email address is valid the output will contains the "Email is valid" field (see after) otherwise it will contains the "Email is not valid" field (see after).

Email is valid

If you selected the previous option, you must fill this field

Email is not valid

If you selected the previous option, you must fill this field

Errors field

When an email is address is unvalid, Hop return the reason. If you want to add it in the input stream, please give the field a name, otherwhise leave this field blank.