# Email validity at domain level in a WordPress comment

I am using MAMP PRO on a macOS Mojave 10.14.6

Let's assume you have installed [WordPress 6.1.1](https://wordpress.org/download/) or newer having PHP 8.x at a location named `/wordpress`

Type this in the terminal at `/wordpress`: - we're installing [composer](https://getcomposer.org/).

```bash
php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
php -r "if (hash_file('sha384', 'composer-setup.php') === '55ce33d7678c5a611085589f1f3ddf8b3c52d662cd01d4ba75c0ee0459970c2200a51f492d557530c71c15d8dba01eae') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"
php composer-setup.php
php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"
```

Now we need to install a PHP library from the composer repository called [Spatie DNS](https://github.com/spatie/dns).

`php composer.phar require spatie/dns`

In case there isn't a functions.php in your theme like in the latest **twentytwentythree** theme, then create one at `/wordpress/wp-content/themes/twentytwentythree`

Type this in functions.php :

```php
require_once 'vendor/autoload.php';
use Spatie\Dns\Dns;

function comment_post_check_MX() 
{
    $domain = substr(strstr($_POST['email'], '@'), 1);

    $dns = new Dns();
    $dns->useNameserver('8.8.8.8'); // We're using Google's name servers
    $records = $dns->getRecords($domain, DNS_MX);    
    
    if (count($records) > 0)
    {
        $MXOfFirstRecord = $records[0]->target();
        if ($MXOfFirstRecord == '')
        {            
            wp_die( __('Error: The mail record for this domain seems to be empty') );
        }
    }
    else
    {        
        wp_die( __("Error: There doesn't seem to be any mail records for this domain") );
    }    
}

add_action('pre_comment_on_post', 'comment_post_check_MX', 10);
```

Now, if you type in an invalid email address like somone@somewhere.travel at the blog post at http://wordpress/2023/01/21/hello-world/ (or at your local domain like wordpress.local), your WordPress should return an error message like this one below before even the comment is posted/saved to the database.

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1674269124814/65166d4b-fa24-4976-a3c7-d5730aaba0b1.png align="center")