I know this is basically a spam tool.
I think to know that you can query some info from a mailserver to test if an address exists.
I would like to find hidden addresses of some companies, for example I want to test if info@companyname.com exists.
Anyone know how to do that?
Update
I learned quite a bit
- Mailserver block the requests that are used to get a list of inboxes (“accounts”)
- many servers will block mailservers that are not on an allowlist
- many servers will block servers, if mails were sent to nonexistent addresses a couple of times
- the message “recipient not known” will not appear often, as servers may “black hole” a senders mail and cut off the connection without sending the status message back
Not possible. Almost all mailservers have migitated for this kind of thing. Even if you wrote a script, it wouldn’t work on any properly configured mailserver…