Email Verification Tool

Email Verifier

Check if an email address is real and able to receive mail in seconds. Includes catch-all and gateway-protected domains.

Enter an email address

Frequently Asked Questions

What is an email verifier?
An email verifier checks whether an email address is real and able to receive mail before you send to it, so you avoid the bounces that hurt your sender reputation. Anymail Finder verifies B2B work emails, including the catch-all and gateway-protected addresses most tools give up on, and marks each one valid, risky, or invalid.
How does email verification work?
Anymail Finder runs a live check on every address, connecting to the mail server in real time to confirm the mailbox exists, including catch-all and gateway-protected domains. Each result is returned as valid, risky, or invalid based on that live check, not a database lookup.
What is the difference between email validation and email verification?
Email validation usually means a syntax or format check: does the address look like a real email. Email verification goes further and connects to the mail server in real time to confirm the mailbox actually exists and can receive mail. Anymail Finder performs full verification, not just validation.
How accurate is your email verifier?
We guarantee 97%+ deliverability on every address we mark valid, and our customers report under 1% hard bounces. Where basic verifiers give up, on catch-all domains and gateway-protected mailboxes, we run deeper live checks to return a clear answer instead of an unknown.
How do you verify catch-all domains?
We go beyond a standard mailbox check with advanced live techniques, including on gateway-protected servers, to confirm whether a specific address on a catch-all domain really exists, instead of writing the whole domain off as risky.
What do valid, risky, and invalid mean?
Valid means the mailbox exists and will accept mail. Invalid means the address is dead or fake and won't accept mail. Risky means we could not confirm with full confidence, so it is usually worth excluding from cold sends. Most verifiers leave every catch-all as risky; we resolve many of them to a clear valid or invalid.
Can an email marked valid still bounce?
Rarely. A hard bounce can happen if a mailbox is closed after we checked it. Report it and we refund the credits. A soft bounce usually means your own domain or IP was flagged by the recipient's server, which is a sending-side issue rather than a verification one.
Can I verify a list I already have?
Yes. Upload a CSV or Excel file with up to 100,000 rows, or use the API. Verifying an address costs 0.2 credits, and duplicates within 30 days are free.
Is it free to try, and what does it cost?
Yes, you get 100 free credits to start. After that, each verification costs 0.2 credits, so one credit verifies 5 emails, and duplicate checks within 30 days are free. See the pricing page for credit costs.