accepted_email: the mail server accepted the address

valid reason: accepted_email

The receiving SMTP server accepted the mailbox.

What it means

During the SMTP conversation, the domain's mail server accepted the recipient address. The check stops before any message is sent, so the person receives nothing.

On a catch-all domain the server accepts every mailbox, even ones that do not exist. In that case the result is still valid with accepted_email, but accept_all is true and safe_to_send is false, because the acceptance proves nothing about this specific mailbox.

What to do

• Read accept_all, disposable and safe_to_send together with this reason before you decide.
• If all of them are clean, the address is safe to send to.

Example API response

{
    "email": "jane.doe@example.com",
    "result": "valid",
    "reason": "accepted_email",
    "disposable": false,
    "accept_all": false,
    "role": false,
    "free": false,
    "user": "jane.doe",
    "domain": "example.com",
    "mx_record": "mx1.example.com",
    "mx_domain": "example.com",
    "safe_to_send": true,
    "did_you_mean": "",
    "success": true,
    "message": "Processing time: 812 ms",
    "http_code": "200"
}

Try it without an account: the API has a free sandbox key, eev_sandbox_key, that returns fixed answers for test addresses such as valid@, invalid@, unknown@ and catchall@sandbox.easyemailverification.com.

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