Re: way to check an email without sending it??

2009-10-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
Gary Kline wrote: write and say HI, Howzit hanging... or whatever. Anyway, the sendmail -bv ploy indicates that this person is still at the address i have. no big deal; i was just wondering. Uh -- sendmail -bv doesn't do what you think it does. It only shows you

Re: way to check an email without sending it??

2009-10-06 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 07:13:30AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: Gary Kline wrote: write and say HI, Howzit hanging... or whatever. Anyway, the sendmail -bv ploy indicates that this person is still at the address i have. no big deal; i was just wondering.

Re: way to check an email without sending it??

2009-10-05 Thread Jon Radel
Gary Kline wrote: Hey Guys, Seen as a sexist assumption by some, but some consider gals to be guys. Is there a way I can tell that an email address, say j...@foo.com is still valid without joe knowing that I am curious? --And, yes, this

Re: way to check an email without sending it??

2009-10-05 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Gary Kline kl...@thought.org: Hey Guys, Is there a way I can tell that an email address, say j...@foo.com is still valid without joe knowing that I am curious? --And, yes, this isn't a FBSD-specific question... . thanks for any

Re: way to check an email without sending it??

2009-10-05 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
I use sendmail, so.. the command: sendmail -bv some...@domain.com tells me where the email should go before sendmail sends the email. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: way to check an email without sending it??

2009-10-05 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 01:59:24PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Gary Kline kl...@thought.org: Hey Guys, Is there a way I can tell that an email address, say j...@foo.com is still valid without joe knowing that I am curious? --And, yes, this

Re: way to check an email without sending it??

2009-10-05 Thread Oliver Fromme
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: telnet couldn't connect for unknown reason but thabks for the tip. I usually just The mail server for a domain doesn't have to run on that domain. That's what MX records in DNS are good for. For example, day, the address is ca...@example.org.

Re: way to check an email without sending it??

2009-10-05 Thread Karl Vogel
On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 13:59:24 -0400, Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.com said: B Telnet to the service and start a SMTP transaction, but then abort it. B If you don't get a rejection after the rcpt to: line, then you know B the server will accept the mail and you can close the connection without