05-08-2018
What you ask is probably not very practical. For example, you can check to see if you can connect to a remote mail server. But you cannot know what happens to the email once it hits the remote site.
Spam blockers, filters, user settings and all kinds of other things you cannot possibly see may mess up or stall the email. Not to mention the dumb things users do, like delete email and pretend they never got it.
How to check an SMTP connection with a manual telnet session | Port25 Solutions, Inc.
This link shows you how to make a test telnet connect to a remote smtp server on port 25. This is probably the best you can do to validate outgoing email to another server.
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mail::spamassassin::plugin::phishtag
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::PhishTag(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::PhishTag(3)
NAME
PhishTag - SpamAssassin plugin for redirecting links in incoming emails.
SYNOPSIS
loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::PhishTag
trigger_ratio 0.1
trigger_target RULE_NAME http://www.antiphishing.org/consumer_recs.html
DESCRIPTION
PhishTag enables administrators to rewrite links in emails that trigger certain tests, preferably anti-phishing blacklist tests. The plugin
will inhibit the blocking of a portion of the emails that trigger the test by SpamAssassin, and let them pass to the users' inbox after the
rewrite. It is useful in providing training to email users about company policies and general email usage.
OPTIONS
The following options can be set by modifying the configuration file.
o trigger_ratio percentage_value
Sets the probability in percentage that a positive test will trigger the email rewrite, e.g. 0.1 will rewrite on the average 1 in 1000
emails that match the trigger.
o trigger_target RULE_NAME http_url
The name of the test which would trigger the email rewrite; all the URLs will be replaced by http_url.
DOWNLOAD
The source of this plugin is avaliable at: http://umut.topkara.org/PhishTag/PhishTag.pm a sample configuration file is also available:
http://umut.topkara.org/PhishTag/PhishTag.cf
SEE ALSO
Check the list of tests performed by SpamAssassin to modify the configuration file to match your needs from
http://spamassassin.apache.org/tests.html
AUTHOR
Umut Topkara, 2008, <umut@topkara.org> http://umut.topkara.org
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This plugin is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as SpamAssassin itself, either version 3.2.4
or, at your option, any later version of SpamAssassin you may have available.
perl v5.12.1 2010-03-16 Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::PhishTag(3)