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In my controller I have:

class PermissionsController < ApplicationController'

require 'email_veracity'

......
email_address = EmailVeracity::Address.new(email)

if email_address.valid?

.......

Where can you actually set the option of skip_loop => true?

See this example:

EmailVeracity::Address.new('[email protected]').valid?
# => false

EmailVeracity::Address.new('[email protected]').domain.exchange_servers.present?
# => true

The domain "koelnerbank.de" has no A record (stupid, indeed), but an MX record. IMHO the address should be valid.

Background:

When an e-mail message is sent through the Internet, the sending mail transfer agent queries the Domain Name System for MX records of each recipient's domain name. This query returns a list of host names of mail exchange servers accepting incoming mail for that domain and their preferences. The sending agent then attempts to establish an SMTP connection to one of these servers, starting with the one with the smallest preference number, delivering the message to the first server with which a connection can be made. If no MX records were present, the server falls back to A, that is to say, it makes a request for the A record of the same domain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MX_record

I recently replaced the old 'validates_email_veracity_of' Active Record plugin on a rather-old Rails app with this gem. Now my tests aren't passing properly. Sometimes a test that does validations for the email address will randomly fail, and I discovered it's due to constant domain checking for valid MX or A records.

Is there a configuration option to prevent these checks from happening (for example, do no domain checking while in the test environment)? I was looking at the code (particularly the Config module) and tried changing different options there, but nothing seemed to work. If there's no configuration option for this, there probably should be one. If there is one already, it should be documented.