Bug#486859: O: vrfy -- Verify electronic mail addresses

[bzed@debian.org]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

The current maintainer of vrfy, Mark Suter <suter@zwitterion.humbug.org.au>,
is apparently not active anymore.  Therefore, I orphan this package
now.  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: 990522-4
Priority: optional
Section: mail
Maintainer: Mark Suter <suter@zwitterion.humbug.org.au>
Build-Depends: debhelper
Architecture: any
Standards-Version: 3.6.1
Format: 1.0
Directory: pool/main/v/vrfy
Files: bb7fd227143d498e973b346b976626bc 550 vrfy_990522-4.dsc
 16ed4b53e1603d752d2a381ce952811b 36543 vrfy_990522.orig.tar.gz
 5c11c4eda70f872cd2d830a22455e718 2911 vrfy_990522-4.diff.gz

Package: vrfy
Priority: optional
Section: mail
Installed-Size: 84
Maintainer: Mark Suter <suter@zwitterion.humbug.org.au>
Architecture: i386
Version: 990522-4
Replaces: netstd (<< 3.07-3)
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4)
Filename: pool/main/v/vrfy/vrfy_990522-4_i386.deb
Size: 22352
MD5sum: 0431cc034ec9c3322b19a0b86b0cf0be
SHA1: ebcfd07520183b489d127aac3a151504d18797c3
SHA256: 6ab0d3e5b6756d281a3c2d15c08c7cdc9b5bf8af5a909a0181eeb96ec75a5669
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.
Tag: implemented-in::c, mail::smtp, protocol::smtp, role::program, use::checking, works-with::mail

Justification: unmaintained, last upload 2004