Bug#249717: O: vrfy -- Verify electronic mail addresses.
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
The current maintainer of vrfy, Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>, has
orphaned this package. If you want to be the new maintainer, please
take it -- see http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/index.html#howto-o for
detailed instructions how to adopt a package properly.
Some information about this package:
Package: vrfy
Binary: vrfy
Version: 990522-2
Priority: optional
Section: mail
Maintainer: Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>
Build-Depends: debhelper
Architecture: any
Standards-Version: 3.5.5
Format: 1.0
Directory: pool/main/v/vrfy
Files: c2e26415960a3a58ede239bd404f5592 644 vrfy_990522-2.dsc
16ed4b53e1603d752d2a381ce952811b 36543 vrfy_990522.orig.tar.gz
a44241b66dbacefe2eeeebadfebda9ef 2638 vrfy_990522-2.diff.gz
Package: vrfy
Priority: optional
Section: mail
Installed-Size: 92
Maintainer: Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 990522-2
Replaces: netstd (<< 3.07-3)
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.3-7)
Filename: pool/main/v/vrfy/vrfy_990522-2_i386.deb
Size: 22956
MD5sum: 373157d38b1e8ee97b9ccbda45925ac9
Description: Verify electronic mail addresses.
'vrfy' is a tool to verify e-mail addresses and mailing lists. In its
simplest form it takes an address "user@domain", figures out the MX hosts
for "domain", and issues the SMTP command VRFY at the primary MX host
(optionally all), or at "domain" itself if no MX hosts exist. Without
"domain" it goes to "localhost".
.
More complex capabilities are:
* recursively expanding forward files or mailing lists,
* detecting mail forwarding loops,
* understanding full-blown RFC822 address specifications,
* syntax checking that can be carried out either locally or remotely,
* various options provided to exploit alternative protocol suites
if necessary, and to print many forms of verbose output.
.
Obvious limitations exist (mostly due to a lousy VRFY command
implementation on some hosts), but otherwise, it works pretty well.
--
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com
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