[AccessD] email validation

I would like to learn more about this. In the problem domain that I faced, I
would want not only to know whether the email address is valid, but whether
you received my send, because DWUTKA at marlow.com and DDWUTKA at marlow.com might
both be valid, and I need to make sure that the mail goes to you not him.
Which implies that I would like a response immediately. I realize there are
problems such as hotmail and gmail's relatively show times, not to mention
an ISP's mail down. But still...
A.


-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of DWUTKA at marlow.com
Sent: January 8, 2006 6:29 PM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [AccessD] email validation

Technically, you could use TCP/IP to create an SMTP session to verify an
email address.  The SMTP protocol does verify whether an email is valid on
it's domain.

Drew