Brian Vagnoni on 11 Dec 2007 04:01:00 -0000


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[PLUG] How To Verify E-Mail


There are many ways; but from the console. I'm sure there are others that will demo other methods.

dig any domainname.com

Look for the mx record

telnet mail.domainname.com 25

helo 127.0.0.1
MAIL FROM: <name@domain.com>
RCPT TO: <targetemail@domain.com>

you should see a response of

250 ok

dig any vantage.com

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> any vantage.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 16159
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 3

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;vantage.com.                   IN      ANY

;; ANSWER SECTION:
vantage.com.            2666    IN      A       63.89.64.198
vantage.com.            2622    IN      SOA     dns11.register.com. root.register.com. 200202374 10800 86400 604800 3600
vantage.com.            628     IN      NS      dns12.register.com.
vantage.com.            628     IN      NS      dns11.register.com.
vantage.com.            3250    IN      MX      0 sol.vantage.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
dns11.register.com.     171237  IN      A       216.21.234.76
dns12.register.com.     171237  IN      A       216.21.226.76
sol.vantage.com.        3250    IN      A       216.143.153.251

;; Query time: 15 msec
;; SERVER: 68.87.64.146#53(68.87.64.146)
;; WHEN: Mon Dec 10 22:55:33 2007
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 203

telnet sol.vantage.com 25
Trying 216.143.153.251...
Connected to sol.vantage.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 vt-barracuda-01.vantage.com ESMTP (3c9c192e201fe553e32569bb6dac291d)
helo 127.0.0.1
250 vt-barracuda-01.vantage.com Hello c-69-139-74-31.hsd1.pa.comcast.net [69.139.74.31], pleased to meet you
MAIL FROM: <name@domain.com>
250 Ok
RCPT TO: <sysadmin@vantage.com>
250 Ok
Connection closed by foreign host.


Brian Vagnoni
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