Electronic mail address validation

摘要

A transmitter device (102) receives (602) an email address (410) selected by a user. The transmitter device (102) retrieves a validation status (612) of the email address (410) from a resource (112) on an interconnecting network (110). The transmitter device (102) sends (618) message data to the email address (410) if the retrieved validation status indicates the validity of the email address (410).