From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 6 20:24:16 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BAEC1065672 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 2009 20:24:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (ns1.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C00E28FC0A for ; Tue, 6 Oct 2009 20:24:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n96KMO3v060186; Tue, 6 Oct 2009 13:22:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Tue, 6 Oct 2009 13:24:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 13:24:09 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Matthew Seaman Message-ID: <20091006202409.GA49128@thought.org> References: <20091005173717.GA44563@thought.org> <20091005135924.be749247.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <20091005195036.GC44739@thought.org> <4ACAE00A.9090502@infracaninophile.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4ACAE00A.9090502@infracaninophile.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 23 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: Bill Moran , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: way to check an email without sending it?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:24:16 -0000 On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 07:13:30AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > > > > write and say HI, Howzit hanging... or whatever. Anyway, the > > sendmail -bv ploy > > indicates that this person is still at the address i have. no big > > deal; i was just > > wondering. > > Uh -- sendmail -bv doesn't do what you think it does. It only shows you > what your > local sendmail would do with the message as it tries to deliver it. If > it's not > for a local user, then all it says is 'send it to the SMTP server > responsible' > and nothing at all about what the other machine would do with it. > > The only way to find that out is by connecting to the remote sendmail, > either > by telnet or by actually sending an e-mail. > > Cheers, > > Matthew Yes, indeed. The only other thing is to mess with the whitepages, but not now. The future is coming too quickly, and I'm pretty sure that we'll all have some sort of ID tags embedded ... _somewhere_. thanks for the clue, gary > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard > Flat 3 > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate > Kent, CT11 9PW > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 5.67a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php