Re: FN-FORUM Email validation

date posted 15th January 2002 14:35

On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Stuart Darbyshire wrote:

>
> Hi
>
> I have a client who has a database of about 50 000 email addresses, I am
> assured they are all opt in and not Spam. that he has built-up over a few
> years. He needs to validate them before he starts an email campaign. Does
> anyone know of anyway of doing this other than sending a message to each one
> and waiting to see if it bounces?
>
> Stu
>
>

You could check the domain names or maybe even go as far as telnet to the
mail server and doing something like

tenlet mailserver.com 25
helo me
220...
mail [EMAIL REMOVED]
220
rcpt [EMAIL REMOVED]

and see what is says

However to be honest I would take what you client says with a pinch of
salt. Even if these 50,000 people have opted-in I would expect that some
of them are still going to complain. IMHO if this was my client I would
run away very, very fast..

To me something doesn't seem quite right..

Rus
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