{"id":12,"date":"2010-02-24T14:35:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T13:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/svalgaard.net\/jens\/techniblog\/?p=12"},"modified":"2010-02-24T14:37:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T13:37:43","slug":"verify-an-email-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svalgaard.net\/jens\/blog\/2010\/02\/verify-an-email-address\/","title":{"rendered":"Verify an Email Address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it is nice to verify whether an email address actually exists:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><code><strong>telnet mx1.example.dk 25<\/strong><br \/>\nTrying 1.2.3.4...<br \/>\nConnected to mx1.example.dk<br \/>\nEscape character is '^]'.<br \/>\n220 mail2.nbi.dk ESMTP Postfix<br \/>\n<strong>helo me.svalgaard.net<\/strong><br \/>\n250 mail2.nbi.dk<br \/>\n<strong>mail from: myaddress@example.com<\/strong><br \/>\n250 2.1.0 Ok<br \/>\n<strong>rcpt to: theAddressYouWantToCheck@example.dk<\/strong><br \/>\n250 2.1.5 Ok<br \/>\n<strong>quit<\/strong><br \/>\n221 2.0.0 Bye<br \/>\nConnection closed by foreign host.<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>If it doesn&#8217;t say<strong>250 2.1.5 Ok<\/strong> after the rcpt to, the address doesn&#8217;t exist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it is nice to verify whether an email address actually exists:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/svalgaard.net\/jens\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/svalgaard.net\/jens\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/svalgaard.net\/jens\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svalgaard.net\/jens\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svalgaard.net\/jens\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/svalgaard.net\/jens\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"https:\/\/svalgaard.net\/jens\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/svalgaard.net\/jens\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svalgaard.net\/jens\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svalgaard.net\/jens\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}