What a "valid" email verification result means

valid

The receiving mail server confirmed that the mailbox exists and accepts mail.

What it means

Easy Email Verification checked the syntax and the domain, found the mail server in the domain's MX record and asked that server, over SMTP, whether it accepts mail for this mailbox. The server said yes. No email was sent to the person.

Valid always comes with the reason accepted_email. It is the strongest answer a verification can give, but it is not a guarantee of engagement: the person may never open your emails, and a server can start rejecting the address later if the mailbox is closed.

What to do

• Send to it, unless one of the risk signals says otherwise. Check safe_to_send: it is false for valid addresses on catch-all domains and for disposable addresses.
• In a list, keep valid addresses in your main segment. Look at role and free if your campaign is aimed at people or at companies.
• Re-verify lists that have not been mailed for a few months. Mailboxes are closed every day, so a valid result ages.

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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