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validating an email address from server

Hi,
I would like to validate email addresses.
I am not interested to validate it with a regex expression but from
the email server where the addresses are.
I would like to query this server and know if the address is valid or
not.
Thank you for your help.
Nov 20 '05 #1
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"yochessyo" <se***************@socgen.com> wrote in message
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Hi,
I would like to validate email addresses.
I am not interested to validate it with a regex expression but from
the email server where the addresses are.
I would like to query this server and know if the address is valid or
not.
Thank you for your help.


There is an SMTP and Pop3 command to do this however it doesn't work any
longer on anyserver I've looked at. Most of them always return that the
Accoutn exists so that spammers can't get a list of good email addresses
from a server.
Nov 20 '05 #2
Than you for your response.
Can you give me the code of the way you did please.

Anyway even if it doesn't help, there must be a solution.
When you send an email with outlook for exemple. If the address is not
valid you will receive a notification that the address doesn't exist so
they must be a way to detect if the address is valid.
I would like for example to indicate to the mail server the address for
sending the message that the address is not valid.

see you

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Nov 20 '05 #3
Cor
Hi Sebastian,

I think it is with you the oposite, but this would be a greath spam tool, I
think even that it is used when I look at the email adresses used on the
spam I get now.

Cor
Nov 20 '05 #4

"sebastien chesney" <se***************@socgen.com> wrote in message
news:%2******************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
Than you for your response.
Can you give me the code of the way you did please.

Anyway even if it doesn't help, there must be a solution.
When you send an email with outlook for exemple. If the address is not
valid you will receive a notification that the address doesn't exist so
they must be a way to detect if the address is valid.
I would like for example to indicate to the mail server the address for
sending the message that the address is not valid.

see you

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Your best bet if you want to validate email addresses is to send an email to
the address and see if you get the bad address reply. Hate to be a dick but
as I said the command to validate email address will always return true and
doesn't work and isn't a require SMTP command (You can look it up yourself
if you wish)
Nov 20 '05 #5
"Mike Bulava" <mb*****@comcast.net> wrote in news:eXYebrP5DHA.3848
@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl:
There is an SMTP and Pop3 command to do this however it doesn't work any
longer on anyserver I've looked at. Most of them always return that the
Accoutn exists so that spammers can't get a list of good email addresses
from a server.


Its only SMTP and it was VRFY. But yes, because of SPAM most servers hard
code it to true no matter what you ask.
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Nov 20 '05 #6
> Your best bet if you want to validate email addresses is to send an email to
the address and see if you get the bad address reply. Hate to be a dick but
as I said the command to validate email address will always return true and
doesn't work and isn't a require SMTP command (You can look it up yourself
if you wish)


The problem is that I didn't receive a bad address reply when I send
the message via vb.NET(I do receive if I send the same message via
outlook).
Maybee I have to add something to let the mail server know where to
send a bad address reply? Do you have any idea?
Nov 20 '05 #7

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