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📧 Email Validation & Enrichment Engine

Professional email validation and enrichment service - verify deliverability, detect disposable emails, and enrich with person/company data.

👁 Apify Actor
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🎯 What It Does

This Actor provides comprehensive email validation and enrichment capabilities:

✅ Validation Features

• Syntax Validation: RFC 5322 compliant email format checking
• Domain Verification: DNS and MX record validation
• Mailbox Verification: SMTP-based mailbox existence check (optional)
• Disposable Detection: Identify temporary/throwaway email services
• Role Account Detection: Flag generic emails (info@, support@, etc.)

🔍 Enrichment Features (Basic)

• Extract names from email addresses
• Identify company from domain
• Determine account type (personal vs role)
• Confidence scoring

💼 Use Cases

• Sales Teams: Validate lead lists and reduce bounce rates
• Marketing: Clean email lists before campaigns (improve deliverability)
• Recruiters: Verify candidate contact information
• E-commerce: Detect fake signups and reduce fraud
• SaaS: Enrich user data for better segmentation

🚀 Quick Start

Input Example

{
"emails":[
"john.doe@example.com",
"jane.smith@company.com",
"info@business.com"
],
"validateSyntax":true,
"checkDomain":true,
"checkMailbox":false,
"detectDisposable":true,
"detectRoleAccount":true,
"enrichData":false,
"timeout":10
}

Output Example

{
"email":"john.doe@example.com",
"isValid":true,
"status":"valid",
"validation":{
"syntaxValid":true,
"domainExists":true,
"hasMxRecords":true,
"mailboxExists":false,
"isDisposable":false,
"isRoleAccount":false
},
"info":{
"localPart":"john.doe",
"domain":"example.com",
"mxRecords":["mail.example.com"],
"accountType":"personal"
},
"enrichment":{
"firstName":"John",
"lastName":"Doe",
"fullName":"John Doe",
"company":"Example",
"confidence":50
},
"errors":[],
"warnings":[]
}

📊 Input Parameters

🔧 Configuration Tips

For Speed (Fast Validation)

{
"emails":["..."],
"validateSyntax":true,
"checkDomain":true,
"checkMailbox":false,
"detectDisposable":true,
"detectRoleAccount":true,
"enrichData":false
}

For Accuracy (Thorough Validation)

{
"emails":["..."],
"validateSyntax":true,
"checkDomain":true,
"checkMailbox":true,
"detectDisposable":true,
"detectRoleAccount":true,
"enrichData":true,
"timeout":30
}

For Lead Cleaning (Marketing)

{
"emails":["..."],
"detectDisposable":true,
"detectRoleAccount":true,
"checkDomain":true,
"checkMailbox":false
}

📈 Output Fields

Status Values

• valid: Email passed all checks
• invalid: Email failed critical validation
• risky: Valid but disposable/suspicious
• unknown: Unable to fully verify

Validation Object

{
 syntaxValid:boolean;// Email format is correct
 domainExists:boolean;// Domain has DNS records
 hasMxRecords:boolean;// Domain can receive email
 mailboxExists?:boolean;// Mailbox verified via SMTP
 isDisposable:boolean;// Temporary email service
 isRoleAccount:boolean;// Generic account (info@, etc.)
}

Account Types

• personal: Individual's email (john.doe@company.com)
• role: Generic/shared email (support@company.com)
• unknown: Cannot determine

💰 Pricing & Performance

• Speed: ~1-3 seconds per email (without SMTP check)
• Speed with SMTP: ~5-10 seconds per email
• Recommended: Disable SMTP for large batches

Cost Estimation

• 100 emails: ~2-5 minutes
• 1,000 emails: ~20-50 minutes
• 10,000 emails: ~3-8 hours

⚠️ Important Notes

SMTP Verification

• Pros: Most accurate mailbox verification
• Cons: Slow, often blocked by mail servers, may trigger spam filters
• Recommendation: Use only for critical validations

Rate Limiting

• Some mail servers may block excessive checks
• Use reasonable delays for large batches
• Consider SMTP check only for high-value leads

Data Privacy

• This Actor doesn't send emails - only performs checks
• No data is stored or shared
• GDPR compliant (no personal data retention)

🔌 API Integration

Run via Apify API

const run =await apifyClient.actor('YOUR_ACTOR_ID').call({
emails:['test@example.com'],
validateSyntax:true,
checkDomain:true
});
const dataset =await apifyClient.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(dataset.items);

Webhook Integration

Connect with Zapier, Make.com, or custom webhooks for automated email validation in your workflows.

🛠️ Local Development

# Install dependencies
npminstall
# Run locally
npm start
# Build TypeScript
npm run build

📚 Resources

• Apify Documentation
• Email Validation Best Practices
• RFC 5322 Email Standard

🐛 Issues & Support

• Report issues on GitHub
• Contact: support@apify.com
• Community: Apify Discord

📝 License

Apache-2.0

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