Re: Mailing list validation tool

2011-03-05 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 03/05/2011 03:55 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 15:36:47 -0500 > Bill Davidsen wrote: > >> Until I look a bit I don't know if this helps, but it is helpful. If I know >> an address doesn't work I can send a postcard and ask for an update. If >> someone pays $75/year to join an organi

Re: Mailing list validation tool

2011-03-05 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 15:36:47 -0500 Bill Davidsen wrote: > Until I look a bit I don't know if this helps, but it is helpful. If I know > an address doesn't work I can send a postcard and ask for an update. If > someone pays $75/year to join an organization and asks for the newsletter, I > would thi

Re: Mailing list validation tool

2011-03-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
g wrote: > On 03/04/2011 10:34 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> I'm looking for a tool to validate email addresses, not just as deliverable >> but actually valid. > > if you have thunderbird available, you can use; > >https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/thunderplunger/ > > see also; >

Re: Mailing list validation tool

2011-03-04 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 17:34 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > I'd rather not roll my own if there's a solution of the "why didn't > you just use..." type. I would probably have gone with: Palm the workload off onto an external list server, that already automatically handles subscriptions and bounces.

Re: Mailing list validation tool

2011-03-04 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 4 March 2011 22:41, Alan Cox wrote: > On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 17:34:25 -0500 > Bill Davidsen wrote: > >> I'm looking for a tool to validate email addresses, > > > Good luck, lots of big mail systems are designed to make it very hard to > scan for actual user names (spammers like that) so you are m

Re: Mailing list validation tool

2011-03-04 Thread g
On 03/04/2011 10:34 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > I'm looking for a tool to validate email addresses, not just as deliverable > but actually valid. if you have thunderbird available, you can use; https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/thunderplunger/ see also; http://thunderplunger

Re: Mailing list validation tool

2011-03-04 Thread Alan Cox
On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 17:34:25 -0500 Bill Davidsen wrote: > I'm looking for a tool to validate email addresses, Good luck, lots of big mail systems are designed to make it very hard to scan for actual user names (spammers like that) so you are more likely to end up blacklisted than get answers.

Mailing list validation tool

2011-03-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
I'm looking for a tool to validate email addresses, not just as deliverable but actually valid. To do this the recipient mail server will need to be contacted. I have inherited a large mailing list, and since AOL has taken to rejecting delivery if any one recipient is invalid I don't want to bur