How to verify if an Yahoo ID is valid or not?

is there any way i can verify if an yahoo id is valid or not?

 

You can send an verification email to their yahoo id, which should be an email address too right?

 

Nope, i need something much faster then that

 

You can sending an email such as an welcome message and if it returns an error, such as miss delivery or something, then you know the email is fake.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

ex(not actually code).
if(mail()) {}
else {
echo invalid email
}

 

You can use regex:

<?php
$ymail = "danx10@digitalpoint.com";
if(preg_match("/^([a-z0-9_]{4,}|[a-z0-9_]{4,}@yahoo\.[a-z\.]{2,})$/i", $ymail)){
echo "Valid";
} else {
echo "Invalid! Yahoo ID";
}
?>

PHP:

Enjoy

 

In the past you could check if he have a profile :

http://profiles.yahoo.com/badguy_goodguy

now, is harder, lol

 

try to sent an email to the address,... if there's no respon,.. is valid then other wise.... got notification

 

Hey , i need to this live from the web :|

 

You can't.

 

See Validate an Email Address Via SMTP using php