I'm looking at different ways that I would be able to check to see if an email address exists, for purposes of my Mercury email system for CircleMUD. I ran across the idea of using ping, but kinda ran into a tricky situation. While ping readily transmits packets to www.yahoo.com and mail.yahoo.com, it won't recognize my email address: tacodog21@yahoo.com. So, I was hoping maybe someone on this list might be able to help me out. Here's my plan: When a person finishes an email in Mercury, I want to cehck to see if the address in the To: field will accept the email. Otherwise, you end up with a dead-letter, and if this happens too often, a perturbed sysadmin. Right now, the dead-letter is shunted to the inbox of the MUD account, and I certainly don't want to open a security hole by having Mercury check the inbox. If there's another, easier method, or anything at all that would work, I would be happy to hear about it. -FIRE +------------------------------------------------------------------+------+ | Get your MUD on @ Euridia.com! | __ | | http://www.euridia.com -- Your ultimate MUD resource | (oO) | | telnet://euridia.com:4545 -- Euridia MUD | /||\ | | telnet://euridia.com:4000 -- The E2K Project | | +------------------------------------------------------------------+------+ -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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