Overview
The Verify Email Address action allows you to validate the legitimacy and attributes of an email address. It takes an email address as input and returns an object containing information like whether the email is valid, the domain name, if it's a catch-all or professional email, if it's generic or personal, and the MX record for the email's mail server. This action is useful for vetting lists of email prospects, cleaning up email data, or simply checking the characteristics of a single email address before sending communications.
Usage Examples
Finding prospects - This action can be useful when trying to find and validate potential prospects' email addresses, such as when using the "Find Prospects" action or using data from your own CRM. This allows you to verify the validity and nature of the email addresses before reaching out to the prospects.
Some other example use cases where you might leverage this action:
Validating user emails collected through a sign-up form before storing in your database
Analyzing a list of prospect emails to identify personal vs professional addresses
Checking if an email uses a catch-all domain before sending a marketing email blast
Extracting the domain portion from a list of emails for targeting purposes
Inputs
Email address - The email address string that needs to be verified
[email protected]
Outputs
The Verify Email Address action outputs an object containing several properties that provide information about the input email address. The output properties are:
Valid: A boolean value indicating whether the input email address is valid or not.
Domain: The domain part of the input email address (e.g. "gmail.com" for "[email protected]").
Catch-all: A boolean value indicating whether the email address is a catch-all email or not. Catch-all emails accept mail for any username at that domain.
Professional: A boolean value indicating whether the email is considered a professional email address or not, based on the domain.
Generic: A boolean value indicating whether the email address is a generic/public email service like Gmail, Yahoo etc.
Personal: A boolean value indicating whether the email is considered a personal email address or not, based on the domain.
MX record: The DNS mail exchange record that specifies the mail server responsible for accepting emails for the domain.
Related Actions
Find Prospects with Rightbound - the Verify Email Address action can be used in conjunction with the Find Prospects with Rightbound action to validate the email addresses of the prospects found, ensuring the contact information is accurate before reaching out to them or using it for other purposes.