Checking if email is valid

[avi.e.gross at gmail.com]

Yes, Chris, many things can be used for lesser purposes.

Perhaps this could be like when people automate guessing passwords and one
defense is to stop accepting after N bad guesses till some external method
resets things.

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From: Python-list <python-list-bounces+avi.e.gross=gmail.com at python.org> On
Behalf Of Chris Angelico via Python-list
Sent: Thursday, November 2, 2023 2:05 AM
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Subject: Re: Checking if email is valid

On Thu, 2 Nov 2023 at 15:20, AVI GROSS via Python-list
<python-list at python.org> wrote:
>
> Yes, it would be nice if there was a syntax for sending a test message
sort
> of like an ACK that is not delivered to the recipient but merely results
in
> some status being sent back such as DELIVERABLE or NO SUCH USER or even
> MAILBOX FULL.
>

Yes, it would! Spammers would be able to use this syntax to figure out
exactly which addresses actually have real people connected to it. It
would save them so much trouble! Brilliant idea.

ChrisA
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