In today's digital age, validation and quality control of email addresses is essential to ensure the integrity of databases and optimize marketing campaigns. The Secure Mail Validator API is a robust and efficient tool designed to help users effectively manage and verify email addresses. This API offers two main functionalities: validating the authenticity of email addresses and identifying addresses belonging to temporary or disposable email services.
Validation of Email Addresses
The first crucial functionality of the API is email address validation. This function allows users to verify whether an e-mail address is valid and functional. The validation includes several steps to ensure accuracy.
Correct Syntax: The API checks that the email address follows the standard format (e.g. [email protected]). This includes checking for the presence of an “@” symbol and a valid domain.
Existing Domain: A domain check is performed to ensure that the email domain (the part after the “@”) actually exists and has DNS records configured. This helps filter out addresses with invalid or non-existent domains.
Active Mail Server: The API also validates that the mail server associated with the domain is up and running and can receive mail. This involves querying the domain's SMTP server to verify its availability.
Existing Email Address: As a final step, the API can perform an additional check to confirm that the specific email address is registered with the mail server. This process is more advanced and may involve mailing simulations to verify the actual existence of the account.
The second key functionality of the API is the identification of disposable or temporary emails. Disposable email services allow users to create email addresses that are used temporarily and deleted after a short period of time. These services are often used to avoid spam or register for websites without compromising the primary email address.
This API receives email addresses and returns their validity, domain existence, server status, and whether they are from disposable services.
Marketing Campaigns: Validates emails to ensure high deliverability and reduce bounces in marketing campaigns.
Fraud Prevention: Detects disposable emails during registration to prevent fraudulent accounts.
Subscriber Management: Cleans mailing lists by verifying that subscribers have valid and active addresses.
E-commerce Filtering: Filters customer records in online stores to avoid temporary and fake emails.
Customer Service: Verifies email addresses in support systems to ensure that customers are real and accessible.
Beside the number of API calls per month allowed, there are no other limitations.
To use this endpoint, it performs a GET request with the email as a parameter to validate its authenticity, format and whether it is disposable.Check Email - Endpoint Features
| Object | Description |
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email |
[Required] |
{"success":true,"email":"[email protected]","provider":"gmail.com","is_disposable":false,"mx_records_found":true,"dns_a_records_found":true,"mx_record":"gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com","domain":{"name":"gmail.com","geolocation":{"message":"Geolocation data not available"}},"username_analysis":{"isGeneric":false,"suggestions":["Consider adding numbers or special characters for uniqueness."]},"status":"valid"}
curl --location --request GET 'https://zylalabs.com/api/4986/secure+mail+validator+api/6521/[email protected]' --header 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY'
| Header | Description |
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Authorization
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[Required] Should be Bearer access_key. See "Your API Access Key" above when you are subscribed. |
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To use this API, send a request to the endpoint with an email address. You will receive information about validity, domain and if it is disposable.
The Secure Mail Validator API verifies email addresses for validity, domain existence, server status, and checks if they belong to disposable email services.
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The API returns detailed information about the age and history of a domain, including years, months and days since its creation, as well as expiration and update dates.
The Check Email endpoint returns data on the validity of the email address, including its format, domain existence, mail server status, and whether it belongs to a disposable email service.
Key fields in the response include "success" (boolean), "email" (validated email), "provider" (email service provider), "is_disposable" (boolean), "mx_records_found" (boolean), and "status" (validity status).
The response data is structured in JSON format, with a main object containing fields for success status, email details, domain information, and username analysis, making it easy to parse and utilize.
The endpoint provides information on email validity, domain existence, active mail server status, and identification of disposable email services, helping users assess email quality.
Users can customize requests by specifying different email addresses in the GET request to the Check Email endpoint, allowing for batch validation of multiple addresses in separate calls.
The API sources its data from DNS records, SMTP server queries, and a database of known disposable email providers, ensuring comprehensive and accurate email validation.
Data accuracy is maintained through regular updates to the disposable email provider database, continuous monitoring of DNS records, and validation checks against active mail servers.
Typical use cases include validating email addresses for marketing campaigns, preventing fraud during user registration, and cleaning mailing lists to ensure high deliverability rates.
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