Email Address Validation • Data8 Web Services API Documentation

Email Address Validation

Verifies if an email address is valid.

Description

Data8's Email Validation service provides full real-time validation of the email address provided in the data.

This service is costed on a per lookup basis.

Required Data

This service requires the following data to be available before it can be used:

Email Address

This service can also make use of the following optional data to improve its effectiveness:

Address
Company Name
Person Name

Upload Options

The following options can be configured for this service at the upload stage.

Name	Description
Output Additional Details	Output Additional Details Additional details will be added to the output file that indicates the type of email address and any potential corrections that could make.

Download Options

There are no options that can be configured for this service at the download stage.

Output Columns

This service adds the following columns to your output data.

Name	Description
Email Validation Flag	Email Validation Flag The validation result for the email address in the data. Validation response is one of the following: Valid - Email address is valid according to the selected validation level. Invalid - Email address is not valid according to the selected validation level. Inconclusive - A definitive validation status could not be returned. CatchAll - When performing address level validation, the mail server was determined as accepting mail for any address provided to it. Greylisted - When performing address level validation, the mail server declined to indicate whether the email address was valid or not due to a greylisting rule. If multiple email addresses are on the input data then an "Email Validation Flag" field will be populated for each.
Email Type	Email Type Indicates the type of email address populated in the data. Available types are: Personal - Relates to an individual at a non-free domain. Generic - Relates to a non-specific mailbox. Free - Relates to an individual at a free domain. Disposable - Relates to an email address created for short term usage. If multiple email addresses are on the input data then an "Email Type" field will be populated for each.
Suggested Email Address	Suggested Email Address Requires a name, company name or address to be populated. This uses the additional data to suggest a corrected email address where appropriate. If multiple email addresses are on the input data then a "Suggested Email Address" field will be populated for each.
Email Comment	Email Comment Requires a name, company name or address to be populated. If a corrected email address has been provided, this field contains the reason why it has been corrected. If multiple email addresses are on the input data then an "Email Comment" field will be populated for each.
Email Salutation	Email Salutation Requires a name, company name or address to be populated. Uses the additional data provided to ascertain a salutation for the owner of the email address. If multiple email addresses are on the input data then an "Email Salutation" field will be populated for each.