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Jacques Distler wrote:
> 
> As to the poster's original question, if the ISP has disabled fingerd, the
> only thing you can do to verify an email address is to telnet to port 25
> on his machine and use
>    VRFY joe@yourhost.net
> or
>    EXPN joe@yourhost.net
> or go through the motions of sending a test message
>    HELO myhost.net
>    MAIL FROM: me@myhost.net
>    RCPT TO: joe@yourhost.net
>    QUIT
> 
> I am sure the ISP did not *intend* for you to have to diddle with his SMTP
> daemon in order to verify an email address, but that is *exactly* what he
> achieved by disabling fingerd.
> 
> Pity.
> 

I found another program that does SMTP verify.
However, almost every ISP that doesn't support finger has also disabled
the EXPN command in their mail server.
I rather agree with another poster's comments about fingerd giving out
too much information at some institutions.
Just a simple yes or no to say if the user exists would be nice.