Re^2: Determine if domain is actually used for email

Your Mother,
Except that vit indicated in the original post that the presence of an MX record is not a reliable source of the domain's ability to receive email. Apparently DNS administrators are registering MX records all willy nilly.

Cheers - L~R

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Re^3: Determine if domain is actually used for email by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Oct 04, 2011 at 19:14 UTC
Sure... but unless I'm misled, with UDP there simply is no way to know for sure excepting an out of band response—a visit to a tokenized URI sent in a message or a return message from the same domain/address. So no checks will be guaranteed. "Heroic" messages to circumvent misused standards / client-fail seems a mistake.	[reply]
Re^4: Determine if domain is actually used for email by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Oct 04, 2011 at 19:17 UTC
Your Mother, I have no idea where UDP came into the conversation since SMTP is a TCP protocol. I agree that there is no way to be sure unless you can deliver mail to a recipient and get a DSN or, preferred, a response. Seeing if the server is listening on port 25 and is responding in a manner consistent with a SMTP server and not giving a 521 status code is a pretty safe bet though. Cheers - L~R	[reply]
Re^5: Determine if domain is actually used for email by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Oct 04, 2011 at 19:35 UTC
Good to know. Thanks. "Safe bet" still sounds like gambling. :P	[reply]
Re^6: Determine if domain is actually used for email by vit (Friar) on Oct 05, 2011 at 13:08 UTC
Re^7: Determine if domain is actually used for email by MidLifeXis (Monsignor) on Oct 05, 2011 at 13:21 UTC