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POST
Validate an email address

Authorizations

X-API-Key
string
header
required

Your validate.al API key, from the portal (Settings → API Key).

Body

application/json
email
string
required

The address to check. Name <user@example.com> is accepted and reduced to the address.

Example:

"someone@example.com"

Response

The check ran. status holds the verdict, including when the address can't receive mail.

email
string
required

The address that was checked.

status
required

true if the mail server accepts the address, false if it refuses it, or a string when no verdict could be reached.

cached
boolean

True when served from a recent identical check. Absent when the format check failed.