EMail Verifier

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Ronnie Davis

Looking for a freeware email verifier. Any recommendations please? Have
googled and only came up with trial versions.

Many thanks.

Ron.
 
Looking for a freeware email verifier. Any recommendations please? Have
googled and only came up with trial versions.
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There is no way to reliably verify whether email addresss are valid. It
used to be somewhat possible, but now even that's really not possible
without engaging in spammer-like activities.

The exception would be if you run your own mailing list, in which case the
software you use to run the mailing list should already have bounce or
invalid address detection built in.

For other cases, I would give up.
 
Thanks for that but I believe this is an email monitor program and
can not be used to verify whether a particular email address
exists which is what I'm looking for.
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There's no way to do that reliably, as someone else has posted. The
best you could do would be to check that a MX record exists for the
domain and then test whether the MX seems to be working. (Then I
suppose you could actually send an e-mail and see whether it bounces,
but lack of a bounce does not necessarily mean there is a mailbox
there.)

I don't know of a freeware app that automagically looks up and tests
MXs, but there are online services that do. One is at
Ronnie Davis <[email protected]>
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host.com is a valid domain with working MX, though it seems to have
some anti-spam rules preventing casual users (me) from connecting. If
that's not your real address, you should use something like
(e-mail address removed) rather than a valid address. The domain .invalid is
set aside for just such purposes.
 
Try this site:

http://www.glock
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Payware.

Once you have purchased the product, a license and registration
key will be sent to you via email, - no software will be shipped.
You may download the trial software before or after you complete
the purchase process.

From reading the forums, it seems this app connects to the
victim^Wintended recipient's smtp server and creates the smtp
envelope but doesn't send any mail. They admit this doesn't always
work, but I'm skeptical of their claims that it works to cull
70 to 90 percent of nonexistent mailboxes.
 
Payware.

Once you have purchased the product, a license and
registration key will be sent to you via email, - no
software will be shipped. You may download the trial
software before or after you complete the purchase
process.

From reading the forums, it seems this app connects to the
victim^Wintended recipient's smtp server and creates the
smtp envelope but doesn't send any mail. They admit this
doesn't always work, but I'm skeptical of their claims that
it works to cull 70 to 90 percent of nonexistent mailboxes.
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Yup, $35 & up. Also, it all smells like a spammer's heaven.

J
 
Yup, $35 & up. Also, it all smells like a spammer's heaven.

The product page links to very uncool places. I would stay away from that
software.
 
Why do I have problems with an attempted munging of a bad site
ends up going to a worse site.
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..glock is not a registered tld. I'm a bit surprised Firefox
automatically adds a .com, and without even changing what's in the
location box; IE and Opera don't. I'd call it a bug, but it seems to
be intentional.
 
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.glock is not a registered tld. I'm a bit surprised Firefox
automatically adds a .com, and without even changing what's in the
location box; IE and Opera don't.
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K-Meleon does
 
.glock is not a registered tld. I'm a bit surprised
Firefox automatically adds a .com, and without even
changing what's in the location box; IE and Opera don't.
I'd call it a bug, but it seems to be intentional.
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My FF won't (just adds "/" at the end). Could it be
configurable? (Sorry, CRS. OTOH, it could be 'cuz it's v0.8.)

J
 
Why do I have problems with an attempted munging of a bad site
.glock is not a registered tld. I'm a bit surprised Firefox
automatically adds a .com, and without even changing what's in the
location box; IE and Opera don't. I'd call it a bug, but it seems to
be intentional.
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This is indeed a questionable "feature". I have disabled it as well because
of the security risks. You can do the following to disable the default
behaviour, which is to automatically fix up URLs.

Browse to "about:config" to access Firefox's configuration. You can enter
the filter "fixup" or browse down to "browser.fixup.alternate.enabled".
Double click the entry to change its value to false.
 
This is indeed a questionable "feature". I have disabled it as well because
of the security risks. You can do the following to disable the default
behaviour, which is to automatically fix up URLs.

Browse to "about:config" to access Firefox's configuration. You can enter
the filter "fixup" or browse down to "browser.fixup.alternate.enabled".
Double click the entry to change its value to false.
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Good to know. Mine is now changed.

Thanks.
 
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