Re: Validating email address

2014-10-13 Thread Mike Cardwell
* on the Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 08:48:56AM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: >> server and sending "RCPT TO". I'm not talking about that, I'm talking >> about asking Postfix if the syntax of the address is valid and if the >> DNS is set up suitably to be able to potentially be able to deliver >> the messa

Re: Validating email address

2014-10-13 Thread Wietse Venema
Mike Cardwell: > server and sending "RCPT TO". I'm not talking about that, I'm talking > about asking Postfix if the syntax of the address is valid and if the > DNS is set up suitably to be able to potentially be able to deliver > the message. I.e, are there valid MX records etc. That is how Exim >

Re: Validating email address

2014-10-13 Thread Mike Cardwell
* on the Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 12:22:38PM +0200, li...@rhsoft.net wrote: >> Address verification is always a guess. You're assuming that by address >> verification I'm talking about actually connecting to the remote SMTP >> server and sending "RCPT TO". I'm not talking about that, I'm talking >> ab

Re: Validating email address

2014-10-13 Thread li...@rhsoft.net
Am 13.10.2014 um 12:12 schrieb Mike Cardwell: * on the Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 11:51:04AM +0200, li...@rhsoft.net wrote: Is there any way of asking Postfix if it thinks it is capable of delivering a message to a particular email address, in real time? With Exim installed, I could just do a "send

Re: Validating email address

2014-10-13 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 13.10.2014 um 11:45 schrieb Mike Cardwell: > Is there any way of asking Postfix if it thinks it is capable of > delivering a message to a particular email address, in real time? > > With Exim installed, I could just do a > "sendmail -bv some.addr...@example.com" and check the exit code. > With

Re: Validating email address

2014-10-13 Thread Mike Cardwell
* on the Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 11:51:04AM +0200, li...@rhsoft.net wrote: >> Is there any way of asking Postfix if it thinks it is capable of >> delivering a message to a particular email address, in real time? >> >> With Exim installed, I could just do a >> "sendmail -bv some.addr...@example.com" a

Re: Validating email address

2014-10-13 Thread li...@rhsoft.net
Am 13.10.2014 um 11:45 schrieb Mike Cardwell: Is there any way of asking Postfix if it thinks it is capable of delivering a message to a particular email address, in real time? With Exim installed, I could just do a "sendmail -bv some.addr...@example.com" and check the exit code. With Postfix i