The Internet protocol and SMTP mail transfer were once invented. It was in the good old days, when everyone was nice and friendly, so the team for checking email addresses - the VRFY team - was included in the SMTP protocol.
However, the darkness got on the Internet and brought spammers, worms and other evil, so the system administrators of the Internet mail servers protected what was good by disabling the VRFY command.So the short answer is: No.
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