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184 changes: 103 additions & 81 deletions README.md
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mailgun-validate-email
=================

Super tiny wrapper of email validation API from [Mailgun](http://www.mailgun.com/),
useful in form validation. This can be most useful in form validation to avoid those pesky spam emails.

### Disclaimer
This module uses a third party service from Mailgun to verify the validity of the email,
you can read all the info in their [API docs](http://documentation.mailgun.com/api-email-validation.html)
Emails are *securely transmitted* using Public Key Cryptography

# Badgers
[![NPM](https://nodei.co/npm/mailgun-validate-email.png?downloads=true&stars=true)](https://nodei.co/npm/mailgun-validate-email/)

[![Gitter](https://badges.gitter.im/Join Chat.svg)](https://gitter.im/diasdavid/mailgun-validate-email?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=badge&utm_campaign=pr-badge)
[![Dependency Status](https://david-dm.org/diasdavid/mailgun-validate-email.svg)](https://david-dm.org/diasdavid/mailgun-validate-email)
[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/diasdavid/mailgun-validate-email.svg)](https://travis-ci.org/diasdavid/mailgun-validate-email)

## Usage

```sh
npm install mailgun-validate-email --save
```

```javascript
var validator = require('mailgun-validate-email')('INSERT-YOUR-MAILGUN-PUBKEY-HERE')
validator("[email protected]", function (err, result){
if(err) {
// email was not valid
} else {
console.log(result);
// register the person for your service etc.
}
})
```

Output will be something like

```javascript
{
is_valid: true,
parts: {
local_part: banana,
domain: papaia.com,
display_name: null
},
address: '[email protected]',
did_you_mean: null
}
```


### *Why* use Third-Party Email Validation?

There are *easier* ways of checking if an email conforms to the correct *format*
e.g: using [**Joi**](https://github.com/hapijs/joi#example) `Joi.string().email()`
But a validation library only checks that the address "*looks*" valid,
the Mailgun API actually checks if the domain has a valid [**DNS mx record**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MX_record)
(checking if the domain *accepts* emails).

This means you don't waste time (or money) sending emails to **[email protected]**
(*valid* email address which will *fail* to deliver and thus
clog up your inbox with failure reports!)

**Note**: this will *not* prevent people from registering with your
service/app using a *real* email they *don't control*.
e.g: **[email protected]** ...
so you should still get people to *confirm* their email address by sending them
an email with a unique token.
(this will prevent people registering as someone else)


## License

(The MIT License)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
mailgun-validate-email
=================

Super tiny wrapper of email validation API from [Mailgun](http://www.mailgun.com/),
useful in form validation. This can be most useful in form validation to avoid those pesky spam emails.

### Disclaimer
This module uses a third party service from Mailgun to verify the validity of the email,
you can read all the info in their [API docs](http://documentation.mailgun.com/api-email-validation.html)
Emails are *securely transmitted* using Public Key Cryptography

# Badgers
[![NPM](https://nodei.co/npm/mailgun-validate-email.png?downloads=true&stars=true)](https://nodei.co/npm/mailgun-validate-email/)

[![Gitter](https://badges.gitter.im/Join Chat.svg)](https://gitter.im/diasdavid/mailgun-validate-email?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=badge&utm_campaign=pr-badge)
[![Dependency Status](https://david-dm.org/diasdavid/mailgun-validate-email.svg)](https://david-dm.org/diasdavid/mailgun-validate-email)
[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/diasdavid/mailgun-validate-email.svg)](https://travis-ci.org/diasdavid/mailgun-validate-email)

## Usage

```sh
npm install mailgun-validate-email --save
```

With callback:

```javascript
var validator = require('mailgun-validate-email')('INSERT-YOUR-MAILGUN-PUBKEY-HERE');
validator("[email protected]", function (err, result){
if(err) {
// error calling validation service
} else {
console.log(result);
// check results and
// register the person for your service etc if valid.
}
});
```

With promise:
```javascript
const validator = require('mailgun-validate-email')('INSERT-YOUR-MAILGUN-PUBKEY-HERE');

let result;
try {
result = await validator("[email protected]");
}
catch(err) {
// error calling validation service
}
console.log(result);
// check results and act on them.

```

Output will be something like

```javascript
{
address: "[email protected]",
did_you_mean: "[email protected]",
is_disposable_address: false,
is_role_address: false,
is_valid: true,
parts: {
local_part: banana,
domain: papaia.com,
display_name: null
},
reason: null
}
```


### *Why* use Third-Party Email Validation?

There are *easier* ways of checking if an email conforms to the correct *format*
e.g: using [**Joi**](https://github.com/hapijs/joi#example) `Joi.string().email()`
But a validation library only checks that the address "*looks*" valid,
the Mailgun API actually checks if the domain has a valid [**DNS mx record**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MX_record)
(checking if the domain *accepts* emails).

This means you don't waste time (or money) sending emails to **[email protected]**
(*valid* email address which will *fail* to deliver and thus
clog up your inbox with failure reports!)

**Note**: this will *not* prevent people from registering with your
service/app using a *real* email they *don't control*.
e.g: **[email protected]** ...
so you should still get people to *confirm* their email address by sending them
an email with a unique token.
(this will prevent people registering as someone else)


## License

(The MIT License)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
70 changes: 40 additions & 30 deletions src/index.js
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var request = require('request')

module.exports = function (apiKey) {
return function validator (email, cb) {
var options = {
url: 'https://api.mailgun.net/v2/address/validate',
method: 'GET',
timeout: 4000,
qs: {
address: email
},
auth: {
username: 'api',
password: apiKey
}
}
request(options, function (err, res) {
if (err) {
return cb(err)
}
try {
var result = JSON.parse(res.request.response.body)
cb(null, result)
} catch (err) {
console.log("Unable to Parse MailGun Response: " + res.request.response.body);
cb(err)
}
})
}
}
var request = require('request')

module.exports = function (apiKey) {
return function validator (email, cb) {
const func = this.validator;

if (cb === undefined) {
return new Promise(function (resolve, reject) {
func(email, function (err, result) {
err ? reject(err) : resolve(result)
})
})
}

var options = {
url: 'https://api.mailgun.net/v2/address/validate',
method: 'GET',
timeout: 4000,
qs: {
address: email
},
auth: {
username: 'api',
password: apiKey
}
}
request(options, function (err, res) {
if (err) {
return cb(err)
}
try {
var result = JSON.parse(res.request.response.body)
cb(null, result)
} catch (err) {
console.log("Unable to Parse MailGun Response: " + res.request.response.body);
cb(err)
}
})
}
}