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Package: vrfy (990522-5 and others)

Verify electronic mail addresses

'vrfy' is a tool to verify e-mail addresses and mailing lists. In its simplest form it takes an address "user@domain", figures out the MX hosts for "domain", and issues the SMTP command VRFY at the primary MX host (optionally all), or at "domain" itself if no MX hosts exist. Without "domain" it goes to "localhost".

More complex capabilities are: 

 * recursively expanding forward files or mailing lists,
 * detecting mail forwarding loops,
 * understanding full-blown RFC822 address specifications,
 * syntax checking that can be carried out either locally or remotely,
 * various options provided to exploit alternative protocol suites
   if necessary, and to print many forms of verbose output.

Obvious limitations exist (mostly due to a lousy VRFY command implementation on some hosts), but otherwise, it works pretty well.

Tags: Implemented in: C, Electronic Mail: SMTP Protocol, Network Protocol: SMTP, Role: Program, Purpose: Checking, Works with: Email

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Download for all available architectures
Architecture Version Package Size Installed Size Files
alpha 990522-5 27.0 kB100 kB [list of files]
amd64 990522-5 25.7 kB92 kB [list of files]
armel 990522-5 24.0 kB88 kB [list of files]
avr32 (unofficial port) 990522-5 23.4 kB84 kB [list of files]
hppa 990522-5 26.4 kB92 kB [list of files]
hurd-i386 990522-5 23.4 kB84 kB [list of files]
i386 990522-5 23.5 kB84 kB [list of files]
ia64 990522-5 30.2 kB124 kB [list of files]
kfreebsd-amd64 990522-5 25.7 kB66 kB [list of files]
kfreebsd-i386 990522-5 23.3 kB58 kB [list of files]
m68k (unofficial port) 990522-4 21.6 kB84 kB [list of files]
mips 990522-5 26.1 kB100 kB [list of files]
mipsel 990522-5 26.0 kB100 kB [list of files]
powerpc 990522-5 25.2 kB92 kB [list of files]
s390 990522-5 26.3 kB92 kB [list of files]
sparc 990522-5 24.6 kB88 kB [list of files]