[IRCServices Coding] A few things...

Russell Garrett rg at tcslon.com
Fri Sep 20 07:49:16 PDT 2002


> What would be really cool is if services did some verification on
> the email
> address. Even a simple MX lookup will block most of the fakes. Ideally a
> nice little socket routine that does an MX lookup, connects to
> one of the MX
> hosts, goes through the swing of sending mail and if it receives
> a 250 after
> the RCPT TO it does a RSET and QUIT and assumes the email address
> is valid.

What's wrong with just using e-mail auth?

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