The RAPNAP ckecking interface

The RAPNAP (Return Address, Peer Network Address Pair) database is a public resource provided by TipJar LLC.

The RAPNAP database is a listing of senders of e-mail and the e-mail postmarks normally associated with those senders.

You may check a RAPNAP entry by requesting a web page from the pay2send RAPNAP web service.

The pay2send RAPNAP web service is a CGI program which lives at http://pay2send.com/cgi/rapnap/check.

The check program accepts several CGI variables:

• ra return address The return address on the e-mail which is being checked
• pna peer network address The e-mail postmark on the e-mail which is being checked
• ta target address the e-mail address the e-mail in question was getting sent to
• sl subject line the subject line on the e-mail in question
• key key a subscriber key for tracking requests made to the RAPNAP database
• te TEmplate a template for creating the challenge message

Challenge messages are sent when both the target and subject line are listed, and the RAPNAP being queried has not had a challenge sent in the last week.

the reserved key of ipv4 can be used for a demonstration. There is a limit on the number of queries that can be made from any given version 4 IP address each day, using the reserved key.

A perl module, RAPNAP::client, is available on CPAN to facilitate use of the RAPNAP database.

Working MDA software that checks the database before appending to a MBOX file is available by request.