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From: Remy Lebeau (TeamB)
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 21:49

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"Mark Jacobs" <www.jacobsm.com/mjmsg.htm?Borland Newsgroup> wrote in message
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> I found out that our server does not support the VRFY command

Then you wil not be able to verify users on your own server.

> I'm wondering what proportion of SMTP servers do?

That number is decreasing, unfortunately.  As spamming and abusing
increasing, more and more system admins are closing down the features that
allowed them to do their malicious work, and are implementing tighter
security and validating protocols.

> I also note that some act as relays to *any* request from anywhere
> (I won't publish the host of one in particular  :-) ).

A lot of servers don't support relaying anymore, either.  It makes it harder
for recipient servers to validate the senders.

> there is still no guaranteed way of validating an email address

Nope, unfortunately.


Gambit

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