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software to check if email address is alive?

by metalice
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hi there,

well the title says it all,
i found a list on my pc, an old list with about 50 emails.

if there any way to check is the emails are ok? before sending this address an email?

thank you!

Matan
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    Hi Matan,
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  • Profile picture of the author TerryLock
    Originally Posted by metalice View Post

    hi there,

    well the title says it all,
    i found a list on my pc, an old list with about 50 emails.

    if there any way to check is the emails are ok? before sending this address an email?

    thank you!

    Matan
    Matan, the quickest way to check email addresses if they are active or not would be writing a small PHP script which will check MX records, connect to these MXes and then perform a simple relaying test.

    The "risk" of this method is, you may be banned or black listed. Therefore, you shouldn't check email addresses more than 30 at a time (per connection).

    Another "risk" is, a catch-all email address might have been set. In such cases, whatever you try, the target mail server will not return 5.x.x error code.

    I hope this helps.

    Cheers,
    T.
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  • Profile picture of the author askloz
    Do you where these scripts can be found? I'm having a hard time finding a PHP script that will check the validity of the email and the MX record to see if its still a live email..

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