Re: Email address validation

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From: Aaron J. Grier
Subject: Re: Email address validation
Date: 04:15 on 10 Oct 2006
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 02:52:04PM +0100, Tony Finch wrote:
> (2) When the SMTP server says 501 they do not report the error to the
> user.

it's not just 501...  my local smtp server knows _with authority_ which
local users do not exist.  so when a message is written with a few valid
addresses and one invalid (local) address, what happens?

the only windows MTA that seemed to get this right was eudora, but
that's hateful for other reasons.  even thunderbird screws this one up.

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