Revision history for Perl extension Mail::VRFY.

1.00 Mon Nov 23 05:06:32 EST 2009

• add undocumented option to set envelope sender address
• allow ampersand in localpart of email address
• increase default timeout during make test

0.58 Wed Aug 6 08:13:32 EDT 2008

• fix bug where dns error will not return correct code due to timeout feature in 0.57 (Thanks NINE) http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=35950
  • added an English function that can convert the return codes into an English string

0.57 Fri May 4 13:16:52 EDT 2007

• alarm after timeout seconds for dns
• return code 5 sent only if no mailserver sends temporary error (Thanks Sebastian Ganschow)

0.56 Tue Feb 21 19:12:33 2006

• attempt to use Sys::Hostname::Long for a FQDN at HELO

0.55 Tue Nov 16 17:45:54 2004

• set reading timer to ensure slow servers dont hold us up forever
• corrected code for dealing with misbehaving servers.
• added configurable timeout option

0.54 Wed Oct 27 01:19:23 2004

• test.pl is no longer interactive, so that un-attended installs are possible.
• fixed behavior of "debug => 0"

0.53 Mon Oct 18 18:47:24 2004

• fixed typo checking @mf when we meant to check @rt (allowing some misbehaving servers to get by us)

0.52 Mon Oct 11 14:24:05 2004

• updated documentation to show 'CheckAddress' instead of mis-spelled ChkAddress

0.51 Sat Oct 10 07:00:03 2004

• added more SMTP conversation support

0.50 Wed Oct 6 19:02:37 2004

• original version; created by h2xs 1.21 with options

  -AX Mail::VRFY