On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 12:19:47PM -0500, Greg Ward wrote:
> I had exactly the same thing in mind a few months ago, when I took a
> crack at writing a verify_email script. I gave up when I realized that
> certain large free email providers (yahoo.com for one -- can't remember
> about the other biggies) don't reject bad addresses at SMTP time --
> presumably, they accept the message and send you a bounce later.
This is incorrect.
They *DO* reject at SMTP time, just that they reject after the final dot,
not at the RCPT line. I don't have a clue how they deal with multiple
recipients, some of whom are wrong. I guess that then they have to bounce
it themselves.
MBM
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