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Source: vrfy
Section: mail
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>
Standards-Version: 2.4.1.0
Package: vrfy
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
Replaces: netstd
Description: Verify electronic mail addresses.
'vrfy' is a tool to verify email addresses and mailing lists. In its simplest
form it takes an address "user@domain", figures out the MX hosts for "domain",
and issues the SMTP command VRFY at the primary MX host (optionally all), or
at "domain" itself if no MX hosts exist. Without "domain" it goes to
"localhost". More complex capabilities are: recursively expanding forward
files or mailing lists, and detecting mail forwarding loops. Full-blown
RFC822 address specifications are understood. Syntax checking can be carried
out either locally or remotely. Various options are provided to exploit
alternative protocol suites if necessary, and to print many forms of verbose
output. Obvious limitations exist, but on average it works pretty well.
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