How to Check if an Email Address is Valid

How to Check if an Email Address is Valid

Learn how to check if an email address is valid and does exist without sending a test mail to that address. Work for Gmail addresses , Outlook and Yahoo .
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How do you know if there is an email address or not? The easiest option would be for you to send an email to that dummy email address , wait for an hour or so and if your message bounces , it is likely that there is no email in particular. The approach works , but would not it be nice if you could check any email instantly, without even sending the test message ?



The other option a bit technical to verify an email address is at the mail server . It connects to the mail server via telnet ( see video) , enter your email address and another email address that you are trying to verify. If the server response is an error code , the email address is probably invalid.

Checking email addresses Instantly

Let me share with you a very simple method to check if an email address is valid and exists or not.

Go to the login page of the mail service and pretend it does not remember the password for your email account . The service will ask for your email address where they can send the user password recovery . Here if an email address is entered that does not exist , the service is most likely to tell you that the particular user name does not exist. I tested this with Google Apps, Yahoo Mail and Outlook (Hotmail ) and the method works with all of them .

Check your e-mail address

For Gmail and Google Apps

Go to the password assistance page of Google at google.com / accounts / recovery and choose the option not know my password. Enter the email address you are trying to verify - that could be an @ gmail address or the address of Google Apps - and select Continue. If that address is not valid, Google launched an error saying not found with that email account.

Alternatively, you can go to the registration page in Gmail accounts.google.com / Join and try to create a new Gmail account with the address you are trying to verify. For valid email address , the error would be that someone already has that username .

For Outlook , Hotmail and Live.com Addresses

Go to account.live.com / ResetPassword , choose the forgot my password option and enter the email address Outlook. You will get an error saying Microsoft account is incorrect. for addresses that do not exist.

For verification of email addresses from Yahoo

Go to account recovery page to Yahoo in edit.yahoo.com / forgotten , enter the@yahoo.com email that is checking the validity and click the Next button. Yahoo will say that we could not match the ID Yahoo has entered the information in our database if the email does not exist.