> Verifying control of an email address is a frequent activity on the web today and is used both to prove the user has provided a valid email address
LOL WUT??
This is also ideal in “war dialling” eMail servers to get accurate lists of what eMail accounts exist on said server. This has been the case since marketing first hit the Internet.
Do you really want all of your legitimate eMail addresses to end up on spam lists? Because this is how you get complete and unabridged lists of your domain’s valid eMail addresses onto spam lists.
It’s why my own eMail server is set up to quietly confirm and accept any and all eMail sent to the domain - regardless of username employed. Even invalid eMail accounts get confirmed and incoming eMails to them get accepted.
Anything not sent to a valid account then drops into a catch-all account for further processing. Occasionally I’ll get eMail where the username was misspelled - it happens - and I just forward it to the appropriate family member.
The rest get reported as spam. And I enjoy making every last report. Enjoy ending up on a blacklist.
LOL WUT??
This is also ideal in “war dialling” eMail servers to get accurate lists of what eMail accounts exist on said server. This has been the case since marketing first hit the Internet.
Do you really want all of your legitimate eMail addresses to end up on spam lists? Because this is how you get complete and unabridged lists of your domain’s valid eMail addresses onto spam lists.
It’s why my own eMail server is set up to quietly confirm and accept any and all eMail sent to the domain - regardless of username employed. Even invalid eMail accounts get confirmed and incoming eMails to them get accepted.
Anything not sent to a valid account then drops into a catch-all account for further processing. Occasionally I’ll get eMail where the username was misspelled - it happens - and I just forward it to the appropriate family member.
The rest get reported as spam. And I enjoy making every last report. Enjoy ending up on a blacklist.