acquire whether an email address is valid and delivereable within Alpha

[Mike Wilson]

I use the email_smtp_open(), email_smtp_send(), email_smtp_close() methods to send emails through my gmail account. The return in the email_smtp_send() for an email address that is not actually deliverable is still .t. with the outcome being a message sent to my gmail that email was not deliverable. Is there a method or a strategy that anyone knows that can be engaged within Alpha script/UDF to collect the completed email delivery as success or failure?

[Ted Giles]

I am on hols right now but can you ask for a Delivery Receipt -not a Read Receipt- to be returned to your Alpha mail client and parse for the info you need?
Some email servers don't provide this info unfortunately as they deem it a risk.

[armasoft]

Mike, are you looking for something like https://trumail.io/ ? Free for the first 10 checks each day.

[MoGrace]

Interesting results in that both AOL and Gmail returned fast xml results but my registered domain email returned nothing the first time, but did the 2nd time.

[Bill Parker]

I have wanted something like this. However, my address on my domain at Goddady returned nothing. Also nothing returned from a valid Office365 account.

Bill.