On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Marc Perkel wrote: > John D. Hardin wrote: > > Can anyone recommend a non-abusive way to validate email addresses? > > Yes - Sender Address Verification (SAV) works very well. It is not > abusive. Especially the way Exim implements it.
I am not necessarily speaking of the context of a MTA. Example pulled out of thin air: if you had a corpus and you wanted to check the addresses within it, what would be a "polite" way to do so? Just open an SMTP connection and see what the far end says to "RCPT TO:", but put a tight rate limit on it? -- John Hardin KA7OHZ http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] FALaholic #11174 pgpk -a [EMAIL PROTECTED] key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- You are in a maze of twisty little protocols, all written by Microsoft. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 15 days until Thomas Jefferson's 264th Birthday
