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     22 #include <stdio.h>
     23 #include <string.h>
     24 #include <curl/curl.h>
     25 
     26 /* This is a simple example showing how to verify an email address from an
     27  * SMTP server.
     28  *
     29  * Notes:
     30  *
     31  * 1) This example requires libcurl 7.34.0 or above.
     32  * 2) Not all email servers support this command and even if your email server
     33  *    does support it, it may respond with a 252 response code even though the
     34  *    address doesn't exist.
     35  */
     36 
     37 int main(void)
     38 {
     39   CURL *curl;
     40   CURLcode res;
     41   struct curl_slist *recipients = NULL;
     42 
     43   curl = curl_easy_init();
     44   if(curl) {
     45     /* This is the URL for your mailserver */
     46     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "smtp://mail.example.com");
     47 
     48     /* Note that the CURLOPT_MAIL_RCPT takes a list, not a char array  */
     49     recipients = curl_slist_append(recipients, "<recipient (at) example.com>");
     50     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_MAIL_RCPT, recipients);
     51 
     52     /* Perform the VRFY */
     53     res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
     54 
     55     /* Check for errors */
     56     if(res != CURLE_OK)
     57       fprintf(stderr, "curl_easy_perform() failed: %s\n",
     58               curl_easy_strerror(res));
     59 
     60     /* Free the list of recipients */
     61     curl_slist_free_all(recipients);
     62 
     63     /* Curl won't send the QUIT command until you call cleanup, so you should
     64      * be able to re-use this connection for additional requests. It may not be
     65      * a good idea to keep the connection open for a very long time though
     66      * (more than a few minutes may result in the server timing out the
     67      * connection) and you do want to clean up in the end.
     68      */
     69     curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
     70   }
     71 
     72   return 0;
     73 }
     74