Overall, it sounds like this may not be a good path to down as the remote
server might consider me to be a spammer and I have the potential of
getting my IP blocked. Possible but not recommend is my takeaway from this.
Thank you everybody for your research and input.
SKIP
On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 a
I should also mention that telnet that is built into Windows does not have any
SSL libraries built in, so even if you knew how to use TL in a telnet session,
you wouldn't be able to do it.
There is however a utility called SMTPConsole, which is free. The author
compiled a telnet client with SSL
This advice in this article works if the mail server does not encrypt or use
authentication, and almost all internet accessible servers do. After EHLO, you
would need to enable TLS, then log in. If you did not do this the server would
disconnect as soon as you used MAIL FROM:. Also, this only wo
You can use telnet to query a mail server to see if the account exists.
https://www.webdigi.co.uk/blog/2009/how-to-check-if-an-email-address-exists-without-sending-an-email/
Simon
On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 1:42 AM, Bob Sneidar
wrote:
> I don't think so. If it is a single server, and you can mana
I don't think so. If it is a single server, and you can manage the server, I'd
export a list of email addresses and that you can script. If not, then I would
have bounce messages ruled into a particular mail folder. That way you can at
least find a way to compile the bounced addresses. For insta
This might be useful..
http://lifehacker.com/5697360/how-to-verify-if-an-email-address-is-real-or-fake
The synopsis is..
1. nslookup to find the mx servers
2. open a port to one of the servers for the address in question and
interact with it to find out if the account exists.
Based on the article,
Is there a quick way to script out a process to validate if an email address is
valid against the mail sever you are sending it to? We are trying to scrub a
large list of old emails to see if they are still valid or not.
Your input would be most appreciated.
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