"Matthew Loff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There really isn't any surefire way to verify whether an e-mail exists
> or not, except to try to send to it, correct?
Bingo. And with catchall accounts and unexpected mail server behavior you
may get no response even if an email address is not valid. IMO, the only
way to verify that an email address exists *and* is being used by the person
who supplied it (I assume in most cases this is the whole point) is to send
a unique string or URL and check that the recipient responds with the string
in an email or visits the URL.
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