Re: GLUG: OT. Email addresses

[Christian Burger <christian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

this will only work if domain.com is local on the mail server, this will not work if the mail server spools mail for domain.com

On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 09:41:54AM +0200, Christian Burger wrote:
> i'm not sure if this is the quickest way....
> 
> $ nslookup
> > set q=mx
> > domain.com
> 
> domain.com     preference = 10, mail exchanger = mail.domain.com
> 
> > exit
> $ telnet mail.domain.com 25
> Trying 196.36.199.121...
> Connected to nile.raxel.net.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 mail.domain.com ESMTP Sendmail; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 09:41:31 +0200
> vrfy user@xxxxxxxxxx
> 250 2.1.5 Username Usersurname <user@xxxxxxxxxx>
> quit
> $
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 04:10:00PM +0200, Tom Cooper wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Does anybody know of a way to verify that an email address exists?
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> Regards
> 
> Christian

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Regards

Christian