https://www.rosehosting.com/blog/check-if-an-email-exists/ Premium Linux Tutorials Since 2001 Wed, 07 Dec 2022 16:44:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://www.rosehosting.com/blog/check-if-an-email-exists/#comment-44943 Tue, 06 Sep 2016 22:05:27 +0000 https://www.rosehosting.com/blog/?p=19343#comment-44943 why not use the SMTP command that was designed for this purpose? the command is VRFY => “Verifies that a mailbox is available for message delivery; for example, vrfy ted verifies that a mailbox for Ted resides on the local server. This command is off by default in Exchange implementations.”

]]> https://www.rosehosting.com/blog/check-if-an-email-exists/#comment-44879 Sun, 28 Aug 2016 00:00:07 +0000 https://www.rosehosting.com/blog/?p=19343#comment-44879 Good advice! I’ve used telnet to send test emails with the same method but I’ve never thought that I can also see the existence of the recipient in the process.

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