Check whether an email id is valid or not – Methods To Identify Fake Email ID
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It happens some times when you may want to check whether a email id on which you want to send an important mail exists or not.
The most simple method would be to send a test mail first and check if you receive a failure mail delivery receipt, but sometimes you can’t even send a test email as the email id could be of your boss or someone whom you may not feel comfortable sending test email to test the email id validity.
There has been some methods to check whether a email id is a valid email id, found two methods to check the validity of email if of them useful, easy and fast.
There has been numerous online sources to check whether an email id exists including these two methods below
Method 1:
Broad Band Help provides a small service called Email Address Checker, which check the authenticity of an email address
This checker is real time and can detect in most of the cases whether a email box exists or not, and most importantly this service is FREE
Note: This service is quite good but does not give accurate results all the time.
Method 2:
Another free service to check email id validity is IsValidEmail this service is again web based and will return true or false for a given email address if it is valid or not valid. This method uses the HTTP POST protocol to validate a email address.
IsValidEmail will show the result in a new window by giving a true result for a valid email address and false for a invalid email address.
Enter the email id and click invoke, you will see
if the email address is valid
or will see
We hope at least one of the method above will work for you, let us know if you know any other method other than these to check email address validity.
Author + Admin: Abhishek BhatnagarSoftware Engineer by profession and blogger by passion, I blog about computer tips and tricks and solutions for computer problems. You can connect with me at twitter or know more about me on www.abhishekbhatnagar.com.
Nice tips buddy!
Dearm Sir or Madam,
Is it possible to know how long someone has beeb already using his?her email? Because sometimes, ppl just create an email and never use it anymore (just use it one). Thanks in advanced.
Kind Regards,
nan
Generally I do not post on blogs, but I would like to say that this post really forced me to do so! Good post.
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I received email from – Pawitpons@tatasteelthailand address. How I reply this email?
Both these services fail to check for Yahoo Email Ids.
Right????
It only verify your domain not is email id is correct or no. Eg. Let say you want to check id of guy called of Heman and instead of heman you type hman@yahoo.com it will show you id as valid because it doesn’t validates name it only verify the domain whether something called as yahoo exist or it doesn’t
this is horrible.
your basically building someones email list and exposing whatever email u send to these ’services’ to a ton of spam.
if you think the email addresses you test wont be logged your wrong
why not just validate via regular expression?
[...] I would love to recommend two websites for the purpose: IsValidEmail and Email Address Checker. Both websites is built rather simple for user to do email validation, basically what they need is just the email address. source: technixupdate [...]