you can not "ping" an email, but there are some ways to determine if the
email exists. Will take some extra work on your end and more then likely you
are not going to know right away. Try connecting to the SMTP server that you
want to check mail against. When you connect to the SMTP, which is usually
port 25, you want to try to send a mail to the user to see if the box
exists. I had to do this on a job a few years ago so I am not remembering
the syntax but I can look it up for you if you would like. If there is no
mailbox by that name on the server, it should return an error of 550 and
state it is not a valid mailbox on the system. Let me know if this helps.
Thanks
Robert J. Bailey
(646) 526-4536
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Reich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 3:59 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Pinging an email address
Is there a way to "ping" an email address to verify that the mailbox exists?
It doesn't neccessarily have to be a CF routine either...
Thanks,
Steve
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