how can we use yahoo forgot password method in c#

Question

I have to use yahoo forgot password method in c# for checking an yahoo mail exists or not..

Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan · Answer

Forgot passport method works on existing emails. If you do not have an email account or you do not know it you cannot use that method. The behavior is undefined. That is why it won't be possible to know if the user is entering their own existing email address. For that sake my recommendation is something different. Ask the users about their email address. Send them a verification token. If they verify then allow them to consume the service. This would be possible only if the user is providing their own email account. If they are providing a valid and existing email account but of someone else the service won't be allowed to be consumed.

Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan · Answer

There is also not a case in which you can see if that email account exists or not. Instead you need to test if the email is bouncing or not . A bounced email is the email that cannot be delivered to the email address later. In Gmail you can get an email telling you that the email was bounced. However this is also a standard based method to determine if an email was delivered or not. You can get to see about it below: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7393921/detecting-bounced-messages http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9104404/detecting-bounced-messages-by-return-path-header These would allow you to determine if the email address is valid or not.

prashanth Suthoju · Answer

ya its good..but my requirment is to check an email address is existing or notnot only yahoo it includes gmailhotmailyahoo etc..