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.
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