On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
> As usual, PH has demonstrated a clarity of thinking about issues which
> humbles me.
Thinks. Hmm. Flattery. What does he want? :-))
> I agree entirely. I am not trying to replace that, but I need a quick
> way to check whether an entered email address is likely to be bad.
> Most of the errors I am after will be caught by "exim -bt". I was hoping
> for an easy way to catch a few more (though knowing that I wasn't catching
> all of them). If there is not quick and easy way to do this, "exim -bt"
> will do the job fine.
I think if you want to do more, you should write a Perl program that
runs "exim -bt" to get the list of MX records, and then use them to do
whatever testing you want.
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