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macsrules

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Feb 26, 2008
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Okay, I am looking for a piece of Mac software that will validate where an email address is valid from a list of email addresses that I have. Here is what I have found, but they do not work.


1. http://www.itechprofessionals.com/software/email-validator.html

This piece of software passes invalid email addresses as valid. It does not check to see if the email address is deliverable.


2. http://www.maxprog.com/EmailVerifier.html

I just read this on there site and got one answer

Maxprog site,

eMail Verifier gives good e-mail addresses as bad

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eMail Verifier verifies every e-mail address from a given mailing list, allowing you to determine up to 80% of "dead" mail addresses. For some addresses, such as AOL, Yahoo, and other non-SMTP mail, you can't verify whether the address is good or not. You won't know definitively until some bounce. The mail server won't cooperate.
In fact, a few ISP's mail servers are configured in a way they prevent anybody to find out if an e-mail address is good or not sometimes to protect their customer e-mail addresses from harvester tools.

Consider eMail Verifier as a tool for tracking bad e-mail addresses instead of validating good ones.



This is worthless if you can't check to see if email addresses are valid before sending.

Again, this piece of software passes email addresses that I know are bad because some of them I made up to check if it would catch them. It passed them as valid too.



I want a Mac piece of software that will check to see if the recipients email address is real and DELIVERABLE.


Any help would be very appreciated?
 
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