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[ from ftp://ftp.nikhef.nl/pub/network/README_FIRST ]
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vrfy.tar.Z (Version 980820)
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'vrfy' is a tool to verify email addresses and mailing lists.
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In its simplest form it takes an address "user@domain", figures
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out the MX hosts for "domain", and issues the SMTP command VRFY
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at the primary MX host (optionally all), or at "domain" itself
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if no MX hosts exist. Without "domain" it goes to "localhost".
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More complex capabilities are: recursively expanding forward
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files or mailing lists, and detecting mail forwarding loops.
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Full-blown RFC822 address specifications are understood.
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Syntax checking can be carried out either locally or remotely.
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Various options are provided to exploit alternative protocol
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suites if necessary, and to print many forms of verbose output.
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Obvious limitations exist, but on average it works pretty well.
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Needless to say you need internet (nameserver and SMTP) access.
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See the man page and the extensive documentation in the source
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for further details.
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It runs at least on the following platforms:
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HP/HPUX, SGI/IRIX, IBM/AIX, SUN/SunOS, SUN/Solaris,
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DEC/Ultrix, DEC/Alpha, Apollo/DomainOS, NeXT/MACH,
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BSDI/4.4BSD, Linux, Cray/Unicos
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BIND 8.1.*, BIND 4.9.*, BIND 4.8.3, BIND 4.8.2
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