email validity
Is there a way to check to see if an email is valid, without sending an actual test email? Something like ping or telneting to the mail server and checking? Peter Seitz Operating Systems Analyst Cubic Corporation San Diego, Ca. 92021 (858) 505-2724 _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: email validity
Peter, You can try and use the verify feature of smtp, but most servers don't support this in fear of illegitimate use. John -Original Message- From: Seitz, Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 9:52 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: email validity Is there a way to check to see if an email is valid, without sending an actual test email? Something like ping or telneting to the mail server and checking? Peter Seitz Operating Systems Analyst Cubic Corporation San Diego, Ca. 92021 (858) 505-2724 _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: email validity
What is it you're trying to verify? Telnet will allow you to check to see if the destination SMTP host is responding and processing messages correctly. For internal communications there is a utility called RPCPing in BORK. It is similar to the regular ping but verifies RPC communications between your servers. On the other hand if you're trying to validate incoming messages (as in making sure a message from a yahoo user indeed comes from a yahoo mail server), then you're looking into performing a reverse DNS lookup. Serdar Soysal -Original Message- From: Seitz, Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 9:52 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: email validity Is there a way to check to see if an email is valid, without sending an actual test email? Something like ping or telneting to the mail server and checking? Peter Seitz Operating Systems Analyst Cubic Corporation San Diego, Ca. 92021 (858) 505-2724 _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: email validity
RFC2821 describes a method for checking if the host server supports it. -Original Message- From: Seitz, Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 8:52 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: email validity Is there a way to check to see if an email is valid, without sending an actual test email? Something like ping or telneting to the mail server and checking? Peter Seitz Operating Systems Analyst Cubic Corporation San Diego, Ca. 92021 (858) 505-2724 _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
