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test-email-address

Arguments: email-address

This function attempts to determine whether email-address could be a valid email address on the machine it names. email-address should be a string like "user@machine.com". test-email-address contacts the mail server and uses the VRFY command from smtp and returns t if the address is verified. Some mail servers don't implement VRFY and test-email-address also returns t if VRFY doesn't work.

test-email-address returns nil if VRFY indicates the address is bad or if the machine cannot be contacted (which might be a transient problem, of course).

See imap.htm for more information.


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Documentation for Allegro CL version 6.1 update # 1. This page was not revised.
Created 2001.12.15.

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