Re: E-Mail Adresses

• Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 21:41:03 PST
• From:
  "Robert J. Brown" <rj@eli.wariat.org>
• CC: david@castle.net, moo-cows@parc.xerox.com
• In-reply-to: <v02130501ad28a18d731f@[206.102.200.154]> (mpauker@peganet.com)

>>>>> "Matt" == Matt Pauker <mpauker@peganet.com> writes:

    Matt> At 5:50 PM 1/21/96, David Matovich wrote:
    >> would it be possible to 'check-out' a given E-MAIL address to
    >> see if it actually exists.  Like if passed "david@castle.net"
    >> it returns 1, but if I passed it "asfk@castle.net" it would
    >> return 0.

    Matt> You could just finger the user - Connect to port 79 of the
    Matt> domain (In this case castle.net), and just send the username
    Matt> (david).  If you get anything other than:

    Matt> finger: <username>: no such user

    Matt> Then the email is valid.

You also have to allow for hosts that do not support finger!

    Matt> Though I must say this is really overkill.  After all,
    Matt> someone would be pretty dumb to enter the wrong email during
    Matt> creation - They would be able to get their password...

    Matt> Matt Pauker

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