I don't have a total solution, but you can first run a check on form: Every address has a name, and '@' symbol, another name and ".EXT" where EXT is any of the accepted COM, NET, EDU etc.

After that, you could add a return mail macro to put anything returned by the Mailer Daemon into its own folder. You can then write an OLE Automation procedure to get these email addresses and flag them in the original database.

HTH
Barbara

>I need to validate a list of thousands of e-mail addresses. Does anybody know of a way to easily check whether the addresses are deliverable without actually sending a message? (something like the "finger" command??)
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>TIA