Email Address Verification API

Written on September 1, 2024   By thecradletheatre   in Tech

Validating emails is a vital tool in the digital toolkit of businesses, developers, and various organizations aiming to enhance their user registration processes, maintain clean communication channels and increase deliverability. It helps reduce bounce rates, clean up subscriber lists and maximizes email marketing ROI by removing invalid and undeliverable addresses from the database.

An email validation and verification API provides a set of tools to ensure the quality of an incoming or collected email address at entry-points by providing the ability to check its syntax, detect typos and identifies the type of mail server it’s mapped to. This will help minimize bad data and improve the reliability of your mail servers’ reputation with the mail service providers.

Best Email Address Verification APIs for Reliable Communication

The email verification and validation process performed by mailboxlayer includes over 30 steps including a complete syntactic validation engine, checks for internationalized emails, domain verification (MX records), detection of disposable email services, ping requests to the corresponding mail servers and more. The result of each query is a numeric quality score that ranges from 0 to 1.

Mailboxlayer offers a simple REST-based JSON API that can be integrated into any enterprise system or website in a matter of minutes, allowing you to examine and validate each entry thoroughly in real time. The results are returned in a human-readable format that explains the status code in detail. This way you can understand what caused a query to fail and take action accordingly.