#!/usr/bin/perl -w # Here's something that is of actual use, and should be relatively #portable. # Given an email address and a mail server name check to see if #the address is deliverable on that box. This can be used for address #verification or spam relay checking. # # The point of this is to show how you can take a generic handle #and interact with it. In this example a socket is used. use Expect; use IO::Socket; # $Expect::Debug=1 # $Expect::Exp_Internal=1; # $Expect::Log_Stdout=0; # On by default. This does not affect Expect # objects created with Expect->exp_init() however. By default the output of # those handles will not be output to the screen. use $handle->log_stdout(1) # to turn that on after you initialize the handle. # Arg. 0 hostname of mail server $mail_server=shift(@ARGV); # Remaining args will be email addresses. @addresses=@ARGV; die "Usage: $0 mail_server address1 [address2 address3.. addressN]\n" unless @addresses; # Connect to mail server. This is right out of perldoc IO::Socket. $smtp_sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr => "$mail_server:smtp(25)"); die "Couldn't connect to $mail_server, $!" unless defined $smtp_sock; # Turn the socket in to an expect object. $smtp_session=Expect->exp_init($smtp_sock); # By default Expect doesn't print out the output of an exp_inited item. # Generally you don't want handles jabbering at you. In this case # we might turn it on so we can watch what happens. #$smtp_session->log_stdout(1); # Watch debugging? #$smtp_session->exp_internal(1); # Ok, now let's see if the mail server wants to talk to us: $smtp_session->expect(30,'-re','^220.*\n')||die "Bad response from server\n"; # Cool. Now let's introduce ourselves to the server. # There are many other ways to gain the FQDN of this box. This is mine, # and it's easy. This of course assumes you have uname and that -n returns # your hostname. $my_hostname = `uname -n`; chomp $my_hostname; print $smtp_session "HELO $my_hostname\n"; # My server responds with a 250 + stuff. Presumably that's RFC compliant. # Feel free to go look :-) $smtp_session->expect(30,'-re','^250.*\n')||die "Bad response after HELO\n"; # Try sending mail.. I should probably use my username rather than user@ # but I'm too lazy. print $smtp_session "MAIL FROM:\n"; $smtp_session->expect(30,'-re','^250.*\n')||die "Bad response after FROM\n"; # Now to check each address... foreach $address (@addresses) { print $smtp_session "RCPT TO:<$address>\n"; # Now check the status... ($match_num,$error,$match)=$smtp_session->expect(30,'-re','^\d\d\d'); die "Never got response back after trying RCPT to $address\n" if $error; $status = $match; # Read to the newline so the server will be ready for the next address. # If the server spit back something other than 250 we'll display the # Whole error. ($match_num,$error,$match)=$smtp_session->expect(30,'-re','.*\n'); die "Server seems to have hung after trying address $address\n" if $error; if ($status == 250) { $status = "ok\n"; } else { $status.=$match; } print "Status of address $address: $status"; } # Be good citizens, send a quit. print $smtp_session "QUIT\n"; # At which point it should die nicely. $smtp_session->soft_close();