Source: libmail-verify-perl Section: perl Priority: optional Build-Depends-Indep: perl (>= 5.8.0-7), libnet-dns-perl Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10~) Maintainer: Alexander Wirt Standards-Version: 3.7.3 Package: libmail-verify-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${perl:Depends}, libnet-dns-perl Description: Utility to verify an email address Mail::Verify provides a function CheckAddress function for verifying email addresses. First the syntax of the email address is checked, then it verifies that there is at least one valid MX server accepting email for the domain. Using Net::DNS and IO::Socket a list of MX records (or, falling back on a hosts A record) are checked to make sure at least one SMTP server is accepting connections.