Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > Yes it is. If someone provides email services, they accept the > responsibility for that email address and accept responsibility for > their servers being set up according to RFCs. If a provider supports > email addresss [EMAIL PROTECTED] then part of that support is to verify > that the address is a valid address.
Um, no. The RFC explicitly allows for sites refusing to support address verification. See RFC2821, section 7.3. The RFC-blessed mechanism for address verification is the VRFY command, and sites are perfectly within their rights to return 252 (ie: VRFY not allowed) for all VRFY requests. Using RCPT TO: to hack verification on a server that has made a policy decision to disable VRFY is an abuse. - Marc -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
