Hi Sunil -
It's certainly possible in any language, but the conventional method may not be allowed by the mail service you query. Here's a sample transcript from a machine that does allow the SMTP operation VRFY:
Here's one from a machine that allows the operation but doesn't return the requested information:
And finally one that doesn't support VRFY at all:
There's no programmatic way to make another program give you something it doesn't want to give, but you can certainly encode the request through a socket with very little effort.
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Michael Ernest, co-author of:
The Complete Java 2 Certification Study Guide [This message has been edited by Michael Ernest (edited December 27, 2001).]
