This Rust package enables user to easily validate if an email address is valid, a type of disposable email or free email.
This module can be useful in many types of projects, for example
- to validate an user's email during sign up
- to clean your mailing list prior to email sending
- to perform fraud check
- and so on
Just add mailboxvalidator = "1.1.0" into your Cargo.toml.
An API key is required for this module to function.
Go to https://www.mailboxvalidator.com/plans#api to sign up for FREE API plan and you'll be given an API key.
Performs email validation on the supplied email address.
| Field Name | Description |
|---|---|
| email_address | The input email address. |
| domain | The domain of the email address. |
| is_free | Whether the email address is from a free email provider like Gmail or Hotmail. Return values: True, False |
| is_syntax | Whether the email address is syntactically correct. Return values: True, False |
| is_domain | Whether the email address has a valid MX record in its DNS entries. Return values: True, False, - (- means not applicable) |
| is_smtp | Whether the mail servers specified in the MX records are responding to connections. Return values: True, False, - (- means not applicable) |
| is_verified | Whether the mail server confirms that the email address actually exist. Return values: True, False, - (- means not applicable) |
| is_server_down | Whether the mail server is currently down or unresponsive. Return values: True, False, - (- means not applicable) |
| is_greylisted | Whether the mail server employs greylisting where an email has to be sent a second time at a later time. Return values: True, False, - (- means not applicable) |
| is_disposable | Whether the email address is a temporary one from a disposable email provider. Return values: True, False, - (- means not applicable) |
| is_suppressed | Whether the email address is in our blacklist. Return values: True, False, - (- means not applicable) |
| is_role | Whether the email address is a role-based email address like admin@example.net or webmaster@example.net. Return values: True, False, - (- means not applicable) |
| is_high_risk | Whether the email address contains high risk keywords. Return values: True, False, - (- means not applicable) |
| is_catchall | Whether the email address is a catch-all address. Return values: True, False, Unknown, - (- means not applicable) |
| mailboxvalidator_score | Email address reputation score. Score > 0.70 means good; score > 0.40 means fair; score <= 0.40 means poor. |
| time_taken | The time taken to get the results in seconds. |
| status | Whether our system think the email address is valid based on all the previous fields. Return values: True, False |
| credits_available | The number of credits left to perform validations. |
| error_code | The error code if there is any error. See error table in the below section. |
| error_message | The error message if there is any error. See error table in the below section. |
Check if the supplied email address is from a disposable email provider.
| Field Name | Description |
|---|---|
| email_address | The input email address. |
| is_disposable | Whether the email address is a temporary one from a disposable email provider. Return values: True, False |
| credits_available | The number of credits left to perform validations. |
| error_code | The error code if there is any error. See error table in the below section. |
| error_message | The error message if there is any error. See error table in the below section. |
Check if the supplied email address is from a free email provider.
| Field Name | Description |
|---|---|
| email_address | The input email address. |
| is_free | Whether the email address is from a free email provider like Gmail or Hotmail. Return values: True, False |
| credits_available | The number of credits left to perform validations. |
| error_code | The error code if there is any error. See error table in the below section. |
| error_message | The error message if there is any error. See error table below. |
use mailboxvalidator;
let validation_result = mailboxvalidator::validate_email("example@example.com",PASTE_API_KEY_HERE);
match validation_result {
Ok(num) => {
let ok_result = num;
println!("{:#?}", ok_result);
},
Err(err) => println!("{:#?}", err),
};use mailboxvalidator;
let validation_result = mailboxvalidator::is_disposable_email("example@example.com",PASTE_API_KEY_HERE);
match validation_result {
Ok(num) => {
let ok_result = num;
println!("{:#?}", ok_result);
},
Err(err) => println!("{:#?}", err),
};use mailboxvalidator;
let validation_result = mailboxvalidator::is_free_email("example@example.com",PASTE_API_KEY_HERE);
match validation_result {
Ok(num) => {
let ok_result = num;
println!("{:#?}", ok_result);
},
Err(err) => println!("{:#?}", err),
};| error_code | error_message |
|---|---|
| 10000 | Missing parameter. |
| 10001 | API key not found. |
| 10002 | API key disabled. |
| 10003 | API key expired. |
| 10004 | Insufficient credits. |
| 10005 | Unknown error. |
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