Subject: Verifying addresses before sending

From: Andy Behrens <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 14:31:50 -0400

Over 99% of the mail messages sent by our users are intra-domain:  from
one site in our company's domain to another.  Because our logins are
centrally administered, we know authoritatively whether a mailing address
in our own domain is valid.  It would be really nice for our users if Pine
could check these addresses *before* the message is sent.

If they have to wait for the mail system to send them a "not deliverable" 
notice, they may not catch a mis-typed address until the next time they 
check their mail.  Even worse, if the typo is on a Cc: address, then 
every reply to their message will also generate an error.

(We'd have no trouble writing the program that actually does the 
verification; all we need is for Pine to be able to connect to it.  
Almost any interface would work for us: running a program, connecting to 
a network port, issuing a Sendmail VRFY command, ....)

Is anything like this planned for a future release?

Andy

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Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.        (Anne Herbert)

Andy Behrens			       <[email-masked]>
Burlington Coat Factory, Schoolhouse Lane, Etna, N.H. 03750