On 13 March 2002, Olivier Nicole said:
> To test the validity of an email address, one does not need to send an
> empty message. As long as no DATA is sent, the SMTP transaction is
> aborted. And you have already checked that the RCPT was ok.
> 
> I implemented something like that long time ago to check that users
> entered a valid email address in a Web from.

Not true.  Testing as far as RCPT TO can determine if an email address
is sure to fail, but it cannot determine that it's sure to succeed.

        Greg

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