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Arguments: email-address
For reasons that are included in the discussion below, use of this function is deprecated. (The reasons include dependence on the VRFY feature which most mail servers no longer support, and the inadequate choice of server on which to test the 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 "[email protected]". test-email-address contacts the
mail server and uses the VRFY command from smtp and returns t
if the address is verified. The mail server
contacted is the machine to which the domain part of the email address
resolves, or localhost if there is no domain part.
Note that most 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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Created 2010.1.21.
| Allegro CL version 8.2 Unrevised from 8.1 to 8.2. 8.1 version |