Should domains with "void.blackhole.mx." be considered valid ?

[williamdes]

https://bornoe.org/blog/2016/05/fighting-spam-with-fake-mx-records/

Example domain: wdes.ru

[williamdes]

diff --git a/app/Validator/DNSCheckValidation.php b/app/Validator/DNSCheckValidation.php
index a94f30fd8..a3f181a12 100644
--- a/app/Validator/DNSCheckValidation.php
+++ b/app/Validator/DNSCheckValidation.php
@@ -39,6 +39,18 @@ class DNSCheckValidation implements EmailValidation
         'lan',
     ];

+    /**
+     * @see https://bornoe.org/blog/2016/05/fighting-spam-with-fake-mx-records/
+     */
+    public const INVALID_MX_VALUES = [
+        'tar.junkemailfilter.com',
+        'mx.fakemx.net',
+        'in.verboten.net',
+        'void.blackhole.mx',
+        // "Null MX" record indicates the domain accepts no mail (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7505)
+        '.',
+    ];
+
     public const GOOD_DOMAINS = [
         'free.fr',
         'sfr.fr',
@@ -651,7 +663,7 @@ class DNSCheckValidation implements EmailValidation
         }

         // "Null MX" record indicates the domain accepts no mail (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7505)
-        if (empty($dnsRecord['target']) || $dnsRecord['target'] === '.') {
+        if (empty($dnsRecord['target']) || in_array($dnsRecord['target'], self::INVALID_MX_VALUES)) {
             $this->error = new InvalidEmail(new DomainAcceptsNoMail(), "");
             return false;
         }

[egulias]

Hi @williamdes The objective of this library is to check whether the email is semantically valid against the various RFCs. The DNS validations is on the limits of that mission, as it goes to the internet to check for MX records. I'd also argue that for this to be useful a comprehensive list should be maintained, either retrieving it from some source or keeping it up to date.

Given the above and answering your question, the domain is syntactically valid. A different matter is if you want to filter out some domains based on other rules.

In case you want to add these rules to the validation process of the validator, you always can by implementing the interface. Cheers!

[williamdes]

Hi @egulias Thank you for this reply.

Would you then accept to integrate into this repo validators for:

• typo domains (example: hormail.ca or hormail.fr) Internet lacks such a list
• black-hole email services propaganistas/laravel-disposable-email that uses https://github.com/disposable/disposable would be a better fit for the data and host the code into this repo

There is currently no repo or google search else than the blog post linked above that lists such services. GitHub code search did find nothing.

/cc @smeinecke