JoshData / JoshData/python-email-validator
Email deliverability check is failing with timeout
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Description
in validate_email, the result of the following deliverability check is always : {'unknown-deliverability': 'timeout'}
for this call:
from .deliverability import validate_email_deliverability
deliverability_info = validate_email_deliverability(
ret.ascii_domain, ret.domain, timeout, dns_resolver
)
and this is the case whatever the email
- "testing_user_abcde@lizy.be" (the domain exists, the user doesn't)
- "bogus2@majoxs.co" (neither should exist)
no idea how to solve this, tried adjusting the timeout to no avail.
lib is installed via pydantic (pydantic = {extras = ["email"], version = "==2.8.2"}) and the resolved email_validator version is 2.2.0 (latest at the time of this writing)
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Research direction
Start at validate_email and the validate_email_deliverability call shown in the report, using the two example addresses and the stated email_validator 2.2.0 dependency to reproduce the timeout. Trace how the DNS resolver and timeout are handled, then verify that valid and invalid domains no longer both produce unknown-deliverability: timeout.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- networking
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100