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
  • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.netOP
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    5 months ago

    Very smart. Learned something.

    Many many company mains are standard, which is interesting as they will get tons of spam.

    But makes sense that this is not a good way, that the tools for scanning for available addresses are blocked and that there are even honeypots.