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Date:      Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:13:30 +0100
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
Cc:        Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: way to check an email without sending it??
Message-ID:  <4ACAE00A.9090502@infracaninophile.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20091005195036.GC44739@thought.org>
References:  <20091005173717.GA44563@thought.org>	<20091005135924.be749247.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <20091005195036.GC44739@thought.org>

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Gary Kline wrote:


> 	write and say HI, Howzit hanging... or whatever.  Anyway, the sendmail=
 -bv ploy
> 	indicates that this person is still at the address i have.  no big dea=
l; i was just
> 	wondering.

Uh -- sendmail -bv doesn't do what you think it does.  It only shows you =
what your
local sendmail would do with the message as it tries to deliver it.  If i=
t's not
for a local user, then all it says is 'send it to the SMTP server respons=
ible'
and nothing at all about what the other machine would do with it.=20

The only way to find that out is by connecting to the remote sendmail, ei=
ther
by telnet or by actually sending an e-mail.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

--=20
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.                   7 Priory Courtyard
                                                  Flat 3
PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey     Ramsgate
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