>Using mail server mx1.mail.yahoo.com.220 YSmtp mta573.mail.yahoo.com
>ESMTP service ready
>HELO www.declude.com
>250 mta573.mail.yahoo.com
>MAIL FROM:
>250 sender ok
>RCPT TO:
>250 recipient ok
>DATA
>354 go ahead
>[Body of E-mail]
>554 delivery error: dd Sorry your message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>cannot be delivered. This account has been disabled or discontinued
>[#102]. - mta573.mail.yahoo.com
>Sorry, an error occurred!
>
>So what you are saying is unless you send DATA, which is an actual
>message for delivery, this will occur?
Correct (although for most other mailservers that return a "250 OK" for all
E-mail addresses, they will not even report an error after the "DATA" segment).
>Is there any why to have it send an actual test e-mail, saying something
>like:
>
>Subject: Test mail.
>
>Body: This is an e-mail to check the validity of your e-mail address.
>Please disregard.
But if you're going to do that, why not send a confirmation E-mail. :)
The real answer, though, is yes -- the E-mail validation component could do
that. On the other hand, it appears as though it would only be useful for
Yahoo, as other mailservers that accept all mail to a given domain
(bouncing it later) will not return an error message (so you would have to
process bounce messages to be certain that an address was
non-deliverable). There are also domains that use IMail's "nobody" alias
or the equivalent, and accept all mail...
-Scott
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