On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Shane Lee wrote: >Here's my plan: When a person finishes an email in Mercury, I >want to cehck to see if the address in the To: field will >accept the email. Otherwise, you end up with a dead-letter, >and if this happens too often, a perturbed sysadmin. >Right now, the dead-letter is shunted to the inbox of the MUD >account, and I certainly don't want to open a security hole >by having Mercury check the inbox. >If there's another, easier method, or anything at all that would >work, I would be happy to hear about it. You can try SMTP's "VRFY" or "EXPN" commands but don't expect every system to have them enabled. Some consider them a spammer's tool if misconfigured. -- George Greer greerga@circlemud.org -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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