Ekata Email Address Check Responses

Ekata can provide email check response types by considering the following inputs

• Email Address and Primary Name (or Primary First Name and Primary Last Name)
• Email Address and Secondary Name (or Secondary First Name and Secondary Last Name)

Potential Responses:

• The mailbox is invalid or does not exist
• Timeout
• General syntax error
• Invalid character in address
• Invalid domain syntax
• Invalid username syntax
• Invalid username syntax for that domain
• Address is too long
• Address has unbalanced parentheses, brackets, or quotes
• Address does not have a username
• Address does not have a domain
• Address does not have an @ sign
• Address has more than one @ sign
• Invalid top-level-domain (TLD) in address
• IP address not allowed as a domain
• Comments are not allowed in email addresses
• Unquoted spaces are not allowed in email addresses
• Domain does not exist
• Domain does not have a valid IP address
• Domain cannot receive email
• The mailbox is invalid or the username does not exist at the domain
• Mailbox is full and cannot receive email at this time
• Mail is not accepted for this domain
• Addresses with that username are not allowed
• Addresses with that domain are not allowed
• Address is a bot or other suppression
• Address is a role-based account
• Address is a known bouncer
• Address is a spamtrap or known complainer
• Address has opted out from commercial email
• Internal error

Is Valid: This indicates if the email address is valid and emails can be delivered there:

• True
• False
• Null

Diagnostics: This message is related to "Is Valid" and show reasons why an email address was evaluated as valid:

• Domain does not support validation (accepts all mailboxes)
• Syntax OK and domain valid according to the domain database
• Syntax OK, domain exists, and mailbox does not reject mail - the most positive indicator of the three.

Is Autogenerated: This indicates if the email is possibly autogenerated:

• True – Indicates a higher risk and other indicators should be examined.
• False
• Null

Is Disposable: This indicates if the email domain is disposable:

• True – Disposable email domains cannot receive email and indicate a higher risk for fraud.
• False
• Null

Email to Name: A verification result whether the registered name for the email address matches the input name:

• Match – Positive indicator
• No Match – Increased risk, compare to other indicators before weighting.
• No Name Found
• Null

Registered Name: Returns the registered name of the email address owner.

First Seen Date: Date when the email address was first seen expressed as MM/DD/YYYY/HH/MM/SS. Ekata considers older first seen dates as lesser risk, with an address first seen 90 or less days ago as higher risk, a date seen between 90 and 720 days ago as Established, and a date older than 720 days as Well Established.

Domain Creation Date: Date when the domain was first seen expressed as MM/DD/YYYY/HH/MM/SS. Ekata considers older first seen dates as lesser risk.