Re: testing email deliverability...

From	Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc, comp.lang.php
Subject	Re: testing email deliverability...
Date	2014-06-06 14:37 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<lmsjn8$8pf$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On Fri, 06 Jun 2014 09:41:05 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote:

> On 6/5/2014 11:36 PM, Chuck Anderson wrote:

>> I feel I'm about to step into a giant pile of doo, but .... Some years
>> back I used a Windows program from Analogx called listmaster pro to
>> verify email addresses manually

> And how did it know?

> For instance - I have three domains.  You can send and email to any
> address at any of the three.  But unless it's a valid address, the email
> ends up in /dev/null.

Which brings us back round to:

The only way to guarantee that an email address is actually going to the 
entity that entered it on your form is to send a verification code to the 
email address.

And even then, I suspect that there are some smart spamming systems out 
there that have email addresses and use eg curl to process the email 
verification links (which is why I use entity and not person above).

-- 
Denis McMahon, denismfmcmahon@gmail.com

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testing email deliverability... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-06-05 01:48 +0100
  Re: testing email deliverability... Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2014-06-04 18:40 -0700
    Re: testing email deliverability... Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-06-05 02:05 +0000
      Re: testing email deliverability... Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2014-06-04 19:17 -0700
    Re: testing email deliverability... Rahul <nospam@invalid.invalid> - 2014-06-05 07:11 +0000
    Re: testing email deliverability... Rahul <nospam@invalid.invalid> - 2014-06-05 11:08 +0000
      Re: testing email deliverability... Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2014-06-14 11:53 +0200
        Re: testing email deliverability... Rahul <nospam@invalid.invalid> - 2014-06-14 18:34 +0000
          Re: testing email deliverability... Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2014-06-15 08:54 +0200
  Re: testing email deliverability... "Tony Marston" <TonyMarston@hotmail.com> - 2014-06-05 03:47 +0100
    Re: testing email deliverability... Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2014-06-05 04:53 +0000
      Re: testing email deliverability... Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2014-06-05 09:13 +0100
        Re: testing email deliverability... Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2014-06-05 08:05 -0700
          Re: testing email deliverability... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-06-05 16:21 +0100
          Re: testing email deliverability... Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-06-05 11:27 -0400
          Re: testing email deliverability... Mike McGinn <mikemcginn@mcginnweb.net> - 2014-06-05 16:31 +0000
            Re: testing email deliverability... "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet3@hjp.at> - 2014-06-05 21:15 +0200
      Re: testing email deliverability... Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2014-06-09 11:30 +0200
        Re: testing email deliverability... Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2014-06-09 23:08 +0000
          Re: testing email deliverability... Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2014-06-10 11:08 +0200
  Re: testing email deliverability... Sam <sam@email-scan.com> - 2014-06-04 22:04 -0500
    Re: testing email deliverability... Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-06-04 23:27 -0400
    Re: testing email deliverability... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-06-05 05:37 +0100
      Re: testing email deliverability... Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2014-06-04 21:55 -0700
        Re: testing email deliverability... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-06-05 06:17 +0100
      Re: testing email deliverability... Chuck Anderson <cycletourist@invalid.invalid> - 2014-06-05 21:36 -0600
        Re: testing email deliverability... Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-06-06 09:41 -0400
          Re: testing email deliverability... Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-06-06 14:37 +0000
            Re: testing email deliverability... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-06-06 16:46 +0100
              Re: testing email deliverability... Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2014-06-06 10:39 -0700
                Re: testing email deliverability... Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-06-06 14:22 -0400
                Re: testing email deliverability... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-06-06 20:54 +0100
                Re: testing email deliverability... Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2014-06-06 13:22 -0700
                Re: testing email deliverability... Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2014-06-06 21:55 +0000
                Re: testing email deliverability... Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2014-06-09 13:56 +0100
                Re: testing email deliverability... Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2014-06-14 11:55 +0200
  Re: testing email deliverability... Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-06-04 23:05 -0400
  Re: testing email deliverability... "AvdB" <nomail@example.invalid> - 2014-06-05 12:59 +0200
    Re: testing email deliverability... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-06-05 13:51 +0100
  Re: testing email deliverability... Adrienne Boswell <arbpen@yahoo.com> - 2014-06-05 18:39 +0000
    Re: testing email deliverability... Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2014-06-05 20:46 +0000
      Re: testing email deliverability... Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2014-06-05 14:41 -0700
        Re: testing email deliverability... Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2014-06-06 22:26 +0000
      Re: testing email deliverability... Adrienne Boswell <arbpen@yahoo.com> - 2014-06-05 22:21 +0000
  Re: testing email deliverability... James Moe <jimoeDESPAM@sohnen-moe.com> - 2014-06-05 13:14 -0700
  Re: testing email deliverability... Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2014-06-06 14:11 +0200
  Re: testing email deliverability... Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2014-06-09 13:53 +0100
  Re: testing email deliverability... don.schueler@gmail.com - 2014-07-18 03:45 -0700

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