Extracted from Pike v7.8 release 866 at 2016-11-06.
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Protocols.SMTP
Protocols.SMTP.Client

Method Protocols.SMTP.Client()->verify()


Method verify

array(int|string) verify(string addr)

Description

Verifies the mail address addr against the mail server.

Returns
Array
int code

The numerical return code from the VRFY call.

string message

The textual answer to the VRFY call.


Note

Some mail servers does not answer truthfully to verfification queries in order to prevent spammers and others to gain information about the mail addresses present on the mail server.

Throws

If the mail server returns any other return code than 200-399 an exception will be thrown.