Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!crdgw1!uunet!kyle From: kyle@uunet.UU.NET (Kyle Jones) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: wanted: mail user agent that verifies local addresses before sending Message-ID: <129667@uunet.UU.NET> Date: 20 Apr 91 18:15:08 GMT References: <51080@andante.att.com> Organization: UUNET Communications Services, Falls Church, VA Lines: 21 mp@andante.att.com (Mark Plotnick) said: > I've been asked to look into modifying /usr/ucb/Mail, or providing a > replacement for it, so that when a user is sending a message it > verifies that each destination address is valid before passing the > message on to the mailer. If any destination addresses are invalid it > prompts the user to re-enter them. Sort of like the 'msg' mailer that > some sites run (ran?). > > We'd prefer a mail program that could interface to /usr/lib/sendmail. Dan_Jacobson@ihlpz.ATT.COM writes: > How 'bout one that interfaces with /bin/mail or /bin/rmail, that way > it will work on all machines. Why not just install sendmail? :-) One good reason to use sendmail in this case is that it can do the address verification for you, if you give it the -bv flag. It even returns non-zero exit status if you give it bad addresses. So you could use it to do most of the dirty word in any script you cared to write.