I'm trying to find out whether an email address is valid.
I've accomplished this by usign telnet, see below
$ telnet mail.example.com 25
Trying 0.0.0.0...
Connected to mail.example.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mail.example.com Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:01:44 +0000
helo email.com
250 mail.example.com Hello email.com [0.0.0.0]
mail from:[email protected]
250 OK
rcpt to:[email protected]
550 Unknown user
with this 550 request i know that the address is not valid on the mail server... if it was valid i would get a response like the below:
250 2.1.5 OK
How would I automate this in a shell script? so far I have the below
#!/bin/bash
host=`dig mx +short $1 | cut -d ' ' -f2 | head -1`
telnet $host 25
Thanks!
Try doing this :
[[ $4 ]] || {
printf "Usage\n\t$0 <domain> <email> <from_email> <rcpt_email>\n"
exit 1
}
{
sleep 1
echo "helo $2"
sleep 0.5
echo "mail from:<$3>"
sleep 0.5
echo "rcpt to:<$4>"
echo
} | telnet $1 25 |
grep -q "Unknown user" &&
echo "Invalid email" ||
echo "Valid email"
Usage :
./script.sh domain email from_email rcpt_email