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Incorrect or deleted email addresses

         

apprentice

1:09 am on May 27, 2006 (gmt 0)

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In many occasions, sent email bounces back with a postmaster notification failure. Other mailers, particularly Yahoo addresses also mention that the address has been removed (i.e. long time of inactivity).

Is there any way to test a specific email address, prior sending a message to it? For example like when someone can 'ping' an IP address to find if it exists.

Regards.

kwngian

5:40 am on May 27, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Maybe, connnecting to the server and do a VRFY command for each address.

apprentice

12:26 pm on May 27, 2006 (gmt 0)

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I was hoping that there might be any online tool that does that query for me. Now I have to install Linux on my PC. Wonder if Cygwin will do the job for me, as I had some problems installing RedHat on a dual partition in the past. Thanks for the suggestion!