MX Record Email Validation
Verify email address checking MX records, and SMTP connection, check for disposable email addresses and free email providers.
Features
✅ Check email address validity
✅ Check email address domain validity in domain TLD list
✅ Check email address MX records
✅ Check email address SMTP connection
✅ Check email address disposable or burnable status
✅ Check email address free email provider status
🚨 Check domain age and quality score - soon
🚨 Check domain registration status - soon
Use cases
- Increase delivery rate of email campaigns by removing spam emails
- Increase email open rate and your marketing IPs reputation
- Protect your website from spam, bots and fake emails
- Protect your product signup form from fake emails
- Protect your website forms from fake emails
- Protect your self from fraud orders and accounts using fake emails
- Integrate email address verification into your website forms
- Integrate email address verification into your backoffice administration and order processing
API / Cloud Hosted Service
We offer this email verification and validation and more advanced features
in our Scalable Cloud API Service Offering - You could try it here Email Verification
Self-hosting - installation and usage instructions
Installation
Install the module through YARN:
yarn add @ph7/real-email-validation
Or NPM
npm install @ph7/real-email-validation
Examples
import { verifyEmail } from '@ph7/real-email-validation';
const { validFormat, validSmtp, validMx } = await verifyEmail({ emailAddress: 'foo@email.com', verifyMx: true, verifySmtp: true, timeout: 3000 });
// validFormat: true
// validMx: true
// validSmtp: true
if (validFormat === false || validMx === false || validSmtp === false) {
// invalid/un-existent email address
}
When a domain does not exist or has no MX records, the domain validation will fail, and the mailbox validation will return null
because it could not be performed:
const { validFormat, validSmtp, validMx } = await verifyEmail({ emailAddress: 'foo@bad-domain.com', verifyMx: true, verifySmtp: true, timeout: 3000 });
// validFormat: true
// validMx: false
// validSmtp: null
A valid Yahoo domain will still return validSmtp
true because their SMTP servers do not allow verifying if a mailbox exists.
Configuration options
timeout
Set a timeout in seconds for the smtp connection. Default: 10000
.
verifyMx
Enable or disable domain checking. This is done in two steps:
- Verify that the domain does indeed exist;
- Verify that the domain has valid MX records.
Default:
false
.
verifySmtp
Enable or disable mailbox checking. Only a few SMTP servers allow this, and even then whether it works depends on your IP's reputation with those servers. This library performs a best effort validation:
- It returns
null
for Yahoo addresses, for failed connections, for unknown SMTP errors. - It returns
true
for valid SMTP responses. - It returns
false
for SMTP errors specific to the address's formatting or mailbox existence. Default:false
(recommended).
Disposable email providers database ( ✅ Always Updated )
Free email providers database ( ✅ Always Updated )
Testing
yarn test
Contributing
Please feel free to open an issue or create a pull request and fix bugs or add features, All contributions are welcome. Thank you!