email address verification

[Steve Holden]

"Holland King" <insanc at cc.gatech.edu> wrote in message
news:99d5qi$95l$1 at solaria.cc.gatech.edu...
> does python provide quick/simple way to verify that an email address
exist?
> i looked at the smtp library and the verify method but that does not seem
> to be very standard anymore. is there anything else that is simalar?
> thank you.
>
The classic way would be to send it mail containing a link, which begins:
"To remove yourself from this mailing list, all you have to do is click
here". Naturally the URL clicked on adds the relevant email address to at
least several hundred salable lists, including "gullible individuals who
believe what they read in their inbox".

do-i-seem-a-bit-cynical-today-or-what?-ly y'rs  - steve