Re: E-Mail Adresses

• Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 23:18:04 PST
• From:
  Ben Jackson <bjj@sequent.com>
• Cc: mpauker@peganet.com (Matt Pauker), David Matovich <david@castle.net>, MOO Cows <moo-cows@parc.xerox.com>
• In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 21 Jan 96 18:24:07 PST." <199601220224.MAA20896@sugarbag.bushnet.qld.edu.au>

In message <199601220224.MAA20896@sugarbag.bushnet.qld.edu.au> , you wrote:
> At 06:08 PM 21/01/96 PST, Matt Pauker wrote:
> 
> >You could just finger the user - Connect to port 79 of the domain (In this
> >case castle.net), and just send the username (david).  If you get anything
> >other than:
> 
> If you were going to try this it would probably be better
> to use the SMTP VRFY command by doing something like

Another useful SMTP command to consider is EXPN, which will tell you what
an alias expands to.  A while back someone submitted `expn.pl' to
comp.sources.reviewed (which is archived many places including UUNET and
many source CDROMs) which will take an email address and produce a list of
all the destination mailboxes (addresses which don't explode or forward).
Most of this code could be ported to MOO pretty easily.

--Ben

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