09-21-2011
You can't tell if an address is incorrect until you get a bounce -- which can take anything from minutes to days. mailx can't tell at all, because it does send successfully, and fails 4 or 5 mail servers down the chain.
So there's not really any help for it. That's just the way email works.
Last edited by Corona688; 09-21-2011 at 05:03 PM..
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send-reminders
SEND-REMINDERS(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation SEND-REMINDERS(1)
NAME
Send-reminders - send email reminders for special occasions
SYNOPSIS
Send emails reminders set by users for special occasions.
DESCRIPTION
Email-reminder allows users to define events that they want to be reminded of by email. Possible events include birthdays, anniversaries
and yearly events. Reminders can be sent on the day of the event and a few days beforehand.
This script is meant to be invoked everyday by a cron job. It mails the actual reminders out.
When run by the root user, it processes all of the spooled reminders. When run by a specific user, it only processes reminders set by that
user.
OPTIONS
--help
Displays basic usage message.
--simulate
Does not actually send any emails out.
--verbose
Prints out information about what the program is doing, including the full emails being sent out.
--version
Displays the version number.
FILES
~/.email-reminders, /etc/email-reminder.conf
AUTHOR
Francois Marier <francois@email-reminder.org.nz>
SEE ALSO
email-reminder-editor, collect-reminders
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2004-2010 by Francois Marier
Email-Reminder is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
Email-Reminder is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Email-Reminder; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
perl v5.14.2 2012-05-28 SEND-REMINDERS(1)