Does IsEmailValid() exist somewhere in Google's Cloud SDK?

Question

I've rolled my own email validation function before but have a project that uses a Pre-Google-Cloud-SDK api:

from google.appengine.api.mail import IsEmailValid

This takes a string and returns True/False if it does/doesn't follow the format for an email address. it doesn't test to see if the email address is live - it only parses the string.

Does this functionality exist in Google's Cloud SDK api?

I suspect not as bulk mail support was dropped from App Engine and, with it, this support function.

Answer 1

The Google Cloud API does not offer this type of validation. You can actually search all the available methods in the Client library documentation and in the GitHub repository.

If you are deploying your application with Google App Engine, you can always configure the App to handle Bounce notifications in case a mail is not delivered.

Alternatively, Gmail has its own getProfile API that allows you to check if a user is valid, unfortunately it will only work for gmail accounts.