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Hello,



Can Outlook verify a mailing address?



Thanks


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no



"Talal Itani" <titani@verizon.net>wrote in message



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"Talal Itani" wrote in message news:IpmTh.33754$AS6.1504@trnddc04...



Only by sending an e-mail to find out if your mail *server* can

successfully connect to the specified domain in the e-mail address, that

there is a mail server that will accept e-mails from your domain's mail

server, and that the receiving mail server at the other domain sends

back an NDR (non-delivery report) if it deems your e-mail does not have

a valid recipient (whereas no NDR back to you indicates successful

delivery).



You could send e-mails with a read receipt request but almost all users

except boobs disable that security hazard. You could enable delivery

receipts for your e-mails but all that tells you is that the receiving

mail server accepted your e-mail but says nothing about actually

delivering it anywhere (the delivery receipt only tells you it got to

that server and nothing else). However, most mail servers have disabled

delivery receipts. They are positive feed back that your e-mail got

there but wastes the mail servers resources with trivial replies since

no NDR means that mail server accepted your mail.



So why do you need to verify an e-mail address unless you are a spammer

trying to update his mailing lists as to which are valid e-mail

addresses to then target them more heavily?



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