Another way is to use a product like listnanny which will filter bounced 
emails.

That way you can see which email adresses bounce back.
Bounced emails are dead emails.

Have a look at it here:
http://www.listnanny.net/


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthew Macdonald-Wallace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 10:14 PM
Subject: Re: [AspNetAnyQuestionIsOk] Mailing lists and non-existing email 
accounts


> Helge Thomas Hellerud wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is it possible to check if an email address (account) exists without 
>> sending
>> an email to the account?
>>
>> Or do anyone have any idea how to keep a mailing list updated with no 
>> non-
>> existing email accounts?
>
> Only way I can think of doing this is to keep a record of email address
> against last site visit in a database of some kind.
>
> Then if the user hasn't visited in x days/weeks/months, remove them from
> the mailing list.
>
> HTH,
>
> Matt
>
>
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 



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