VerifyAddress Method

wodSmtpServer ActiveX Control - VerifyAddress Method

Description

Called when user wants to verify an address

Return Type

None

Syntax

object.VerifyAddress Owner, User, Address, Response

The VerifyAddress Method syntax has these parts:

Part	Description
object	An expression evaluating to an object of type wodSmtpNotify.
Owner	Required. A wodSmtpServer object. Reference to wodSmtpServerCom instance that called this callback method.
User	Required. A SmtpUser object. Reference to the user who wants to verify an address.
Address	Required. A String value. Email address or account name user is verifying.
Response	Required. A Variant value. Response you will send to the user.

Remarks

NOTE: This method is called only if you implemented IwodSmtpNotify interface in your application, and wodSmtpServer1.Notification property has received reference to instance of your implementation.

Some SMTP servers allow 'VRFY' command so that clients can verify if some account exists on the server. For example, client is interested if your server have user 'joe', but doesn't really know who he is and if he's really having his mail exactly on your server. For this purpose, they can connect to server and issue 'VRFY joe' command. If you are willing to provide information about account joe, you can set Response variable to Joe's name and email address, so they know in future what's real name for user Joe.

If you do want to provide such information, you can do it like this:

Private Sub INotifications_VerifyAddress(ByVal Owner As WODSMTPSERVERCOMLib.IwodSmtpServerCom, ByVal User As WODSMTPSERVERCOMLib.ISmtpUser, ByVal Address As String, Response As Variant)
Response = "Ozzie WeOnlyDo! <ozzie>"
End Sub

As you can see, all you need to send is one line that includes user's real name, and his email inside <> characters (this is by convention). However, if there are several users that have keyword 'joe', you can provide more than one line of response information. In such cases, just divide them with CRLF sequence.