Validate-EmailAddress.ps1

1. <# 
2. .SYNOPSIS 
3.     Validates an email address using a web service 
4. .DESCRIPTION 
5.     This script uses the New-WebServiceProxy cmdlet to 
6.     create a web service proxy. Then it calls that proxy 
7.     to Validate an email address.  
8. .NOTES 
9.     File Name  : validate-emailaddress.ps1 
10.     Author     : Thomas Lee - tfl@psp.co.uk 
11.     Requires   : PowerShell V2 CTP3 
12. .LINK 
13.    Script posted to: 
14.    http://www.pshscripts.blogspot.com 
15. .INPUTTYPE 
16.    String(s) representing email address to validate 
17. .RETURNVALUE 
18.    [Boolean] - whether email address was valid 
19. .EXAMPLE 
20.     Run from PowerShell Prompt: 
21.     PS C:\foo> .\Validate-EmailAddress "tfl@psp.co.uk” 
22.     True 
23. .EXAMPLE 
24.     Run from Pipeline: 
25.     PS C:\foo> "tfl@psp.co.uk", "foo@foo.bar" | .\Validate-EmailAddress 
26.     True 
27.     False 
28. .PARAMETER addr 
29.     A string, or array of strings representing email addresses to check 
30. #> 
31.  
32. param( 
33. [Parameter(Position=0, Mandatory=$FALSE, ValueFromPipeline=$TRUE)]  
34. [String] $Addr = "doctordns@gmail.com" ) 
35. process { 
36.    $s = new-webserviceproxy -uri http://www.webservicex.net/validateEmail.asmx 
37.    foreach ($a in $addr) { 
38.       $result = $s.IsValidEmail($a) 
39.       $result 
40.     } # end foreach 
41. } #end process block 

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