[thelist] Checking to see that an email account exists
Joshua Olson
joshua at waetech.com
Wed Jul 17 09:30:01 CDT 2002
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Handelaar" <john at evolt.org.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 10:16 AM
> Yep, but every server has it disabled these days.
>
> Otherwise $spammer_of_your_choice could telnet into
> port 110 and get a full list of your domain's valid
> addresses.
That makes a lot of sense. But, do you know if there a way to check that a
*particular* email address exists? I wouldn't think that checking if a
particular address exists would have the same implications as retrieving a
list of *all* addresses.
What I'm am looking to do is verify someone's email address from the
processing page of a signup form and scrub a list of emails to figure out
which ones are valid.
Thanks again.
-joshua
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