HardBounceCleaner allows you to check the validity of your emails by sending in a list or using the real-time API directly in your application. Here are the steps to start:
HardBounceCleaner offers checking emails 100 free for opening the account. If you need more, find on the homepage our price.
Click here to create your free account.
You are now ready to download a list (csv or txt file) to check emails and / or to incorporate real-time API. Feel free to send to support any of your questions.
HardBounceCleaner will check the validity of your emails using the SMTP protocol. It's the same one you use without necessarily knowing when you send your emails. HardBounceCleaner does not send email to this check, but will examine step by step the remote system, such as Gmail. Who will tell us if the email request does exist. In addition to this final check, we check the existence of the upstream area, where an associated SMTP server in this field, and more.
While this approach may seem simple, it is actually surprisingly complex that we begin to want to check more than 10 emails. The email providers are implementing a lot of measures to make sure that the request is legitimate. This is why many companies use our system and benefit from our experience.
| Result | Description |
|---|---|
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Valid |
The email is valid, you can send it without problems |
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Invalid |
The email is invalid, delete it from your database, or deny registration if you use the real-time API |
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Unknown |
The remote server provider does not respond in time, meaning that we have not received a clear answer. We advise you not to send such emails |
| Result | Description |
|---|---|
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Free |
The supplier is free (Gmail, Yahoo, etc ...) is a good sign if your database is BtoC |
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Role |
Users of this email has a role, for example @contact or @info or @posmaster. This means that this email is not addressed to anyone in particular, avoid sending this kind of emails. |
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Disposable |
The email is valid, but disposable after a short time it will not be possible to contact the user. |
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Risky |
This email address seems to belong to an organization that tracks spam, it is very risky to send and no real person is behind this email |
Your email is sensitive, yours and should remain private and secure. HardBounceCleaner not share or never rent this information to others. All information that pass through HardBounceCleaner is encrypted via SSL, it is the same protocol used for secure financial transactions.
During a check list, once your file downloaded and validated, it will be encrypted and a unique password will be asked to open it. Similarly, when using the real-time API, the emails you want to check go through https (SSL) and are therefore not readable in the clear over the network.
Your file containing the emails must be in CSV format ideally with as column separator and the comma as utf8 encoding. Make sure you have a file (csv or txt) that meets the following conditions:
You can have additional columns in addition to the email column, the file will be returned to you with more information valid email. To send your file, click "Browse" or just drag the file into faitee part provided for this purpose.
A compliance check will then be made to your file for the presence of emails and see if the format is correct. Once this step, you will be notified by email and you can then start checking the file.
To start checking the file you must click Start, of the audit is completed an email is sent to you. If you ever do not have enough credits to fully check the file, processing will stop when your credits will be 0. You can then purchase the missing and start a new verification credits.
Once verification is complete you can download the file with different information or your entire list or only a list of valid emails, invalid, or those whose status is unknown. For each row, are added columns: StatusFreeRole DisposableRisky Warning, your list is encrypted and protected by a password, it will appear at the click on the button "Download". Once you have recovered your list, we recommend you delete it from the queue.
With the realtime API HardBounceCleaner, you can integrate the verification email in your own applications. This allows you for example to check whether your users well informed before a correct email registration.
An account is required to generate keys for the API, it is these that will give you access to the service. We recommend that you create as many keys as sources, for example if you have 2 websites, create 2 keys with these two domain names. Add the domain name or IP address used to make a request to the API. Every week we will generate for you protect a file by API keys, containing the list of emails checked in this way. You can then download these lists, and then delete them.
To make a request to the API, just call the GET protocol this URL:
https://www.hardbouncecleaner.com/api/v1/[email protected]&timeout=10&language=en
Replace [email protected] with the email to check, add an X-HardBounceCleaner-Key header line, and the API key You will find on the API page examples in the following languages: cURL, PHP, Node.js, jQuery, Python, Ruby, Java, Objective-C, .NET, Windows 8
A json table will be returned with these variables:
| Variable | Possible value |
|---|---|
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success |
true, false |
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error_message |
default : null |
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The email you want to check |
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role |
true, false |
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free |
true,
false |
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disposable |
true, false |
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risky |
true, false |
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did_you_mean |
default : null |
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status |
valid, invalid,
unknown |