Re: E-Mail Adresses

• Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 06:09:49 PST
• From:
  David Matovich <david@castle.net>
• cc: MOO Cows <moo-cows@parc.xerox.com>
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Your right, this is overkill, BUT, I just like to know.  I had a really 
great reason buts its too eraly in the morning for me to remember =)
-David Matovich


On Sun, 21 Jan 1996, Matt Pauker wrote:

> 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.
> 
> You could just finger the user - Connect to port 79 of the domain (In this
> case castle.net), and just send the username (david).  If you get anything
> other than:
> 
> finger: <username>: no such user
> 
> Then the email is valid.
> 
> Though I must say this is really overkill.  After all, someone would be
> pretty dumb to enter the wrong email during creation - They would be able
> to get their password...
> 
> Matt Pauker
> 
> 

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