Re: [MacPerl] Verifying email addresses

[Jeff Lowrey <jeff@firepower.jaral.org>]

At 4:03 PM -0400 8/4/00, Joseph Erickson wrote:
>Is there anyway to verify an email before sending a message out?  What I
>would like to do is get an email, like firstclown@yahoo.com, then ask the
>server yahoo.com if firstclown is a valid user name for email.
>
>This would really help me in checking emails before sending out subscriber
>lists.  You wouldn't believe how many people don't know their own email
>address.  If anyone else has had this problem, let me know how you handled
>it.

Not without trying it first.  That is, send a message out, see if you 
get a bad reply (eventually....).  If you do, then you know it's an 
invalid email address.

-Jeff Lowrey

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