check mail address whether is under gmail client <Ruby> [closed]

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Gmail able to let users to create whatever email style such as account1@gmail.com account2@company.com account3@university.com

and many more. currently, I'm using this contacts gem which is from https://github.com/liangzan/contacts , but when I login using account like account2@company.com..it cannot get my contacts since the email address not @gmail or @googlemail as I read the code.

So,how do I check the email address whether is under gmail address?

Answer 1

You can check their MX records to see if they are hosted by a googlemail server.

This method will return true if it finds a googlemail server in the domain's mx records. It uses google's dns server (8.8.8.8)

require 'resolv'

def isGmailAddress?(address)
  domain = address.split("@").last
  Resolv::DNS.open({:nameserver=>["8.8.8.8"]}) do |r|
    mx = r.getresources(domain,Resolv::DNS::Resource::IN::MX)
    if mx.any? {|server| server.exchange.to_s.include? "googlemail" or server.exchange.to_s.include? "gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com"} then
      return true
    end
    return false
  end
end

p isGmailAddress?("emailaddress@gmail.com")

look at http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.2/libdoc/resolv/rdoc/Resolv.html