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List:       perl-win32-users
Subject:    Re: Validating an email address with the server that would receive it.
From:       Brian Gibson <bgibson () wheatonma ! edu>
Date:       2002-03-29 19:31:42
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Thank you very much, I will look into it!



Scot Robnett wrote:

>Try Email::Valid.
>
>Scot Robnett
>inSite Internet Solutions
>scot@insiteful.tv
>
>
>
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>Brian Gibson
>Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 1:03 PM
>To: perl-win32-users@listserv.ActiveState.com
>Subject: Validating an email address with the server that would receive
>it.
>
>
>Hello all,
>
>I am finishing up an http link checking script that checks the validity 
>of every link that happens in any web page on our main server.
>Since we have so many "mailto:" links in our pages I also wanted check 
>to see if these are even valid email recipients ( I do not
>want to check the syntax of the email address, I want to talk to 
>whomever holds the MX record and really see if the mail would
>get to the user ).  I read in a Sendmail book that their is a way to do 
>this with switches to the sendmail command but I was wondering
>if anyone knew of a module that had this capability. 
>Thank you in advance,
>Brian Gibson
>Systems Administrator
>Wheaton College
>
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