----- Original Message ----- From: "Pritpal Bedi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <harbour@harbour-project.org> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 11:34 PM Subject: [Harbour] OT - E-Mail Address Verification
> Is there a way to verify if an email address is valid or fake ? what do you mean, to know is, for example, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a real, existing address? you may check everything [address forming, mail servers, ...], but the final test, is there a mail box named "alfa.beta" on domain "gama.delta", is not possible. as i remember [maybe phil wrote few years ago] there *is* a mail protocol query upon which the server should answer "yes, i have an inbox for that mail address", but for security [anti-spam] reason mail admins often [allways?] disable that response. so, sending coded message to tested address, and waiting for somebody response is the only way to test that address is real i would like to know if i am wrong _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list Harbour@harbour-project.org http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
