Re: Verifying E-Mail Addresses
- From: bucklerk@xxxxxxx
- Date: 25 Oct 2006 12:20:49 -0000
You can with SMTP's VRFY command I believe.
HOWEVER, I highly reccomend administrators do NOT enable VRFY due to its possibility of abuse.
What sounds like a quick means of checking for valid recipients can also be used by hackers and spammers to probe a system for valid accounts.
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