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How to check the email address is valid or not

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Some times it will be necessary to verify the existence of email addresses. In such cases we can follow the following steps to check the same. Here I using gmail.com for explaining the details. Don't forget to replace this this with your required domain.

CASE1- For the case of a invalid gmail address invalidmail@gmail.com

Step1: Find the mail server of domain

#nslookup -q=mx gmail.com | grep 'mail exchanger' | awk {'print $6'}
gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
alt2.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
alt3.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.

Step2: Connect to one of the mail server of the target domain.

#telnet alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com 25
Trying 74.125.192.27...
Connected to alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mx.google.com ESMTP j2si1019020qtb.124 - gsmtp
#helo gmail
250 mx.google.com at your service
#mail from: <youremail@domain.com>
250 2.1.0 OK j2si1019020qtb.124 - gsmtp
#rcpt to: <invalidmail@gmail.com>
550-5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist. Please try
550-5.1.1 double-checking the recipient's email address for typos or
550-5.1.1 unnecessary spaces. Learn more at
550 5.1.1 https://support.google.com/mail/?p=NoSuchUser j2si1019020qtb.124 - gsmtp
^]
telnet> q
Connection closed.

CASE2- For the case of a valid gmail address validmail@gmail.com

Step1: Find the mail server of domain

#nslookup -q=mx gmail.com | grep 'mail exchanger' | awk {'print $6'}
gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
alt2.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
alt3.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.

Step2: Connect to one of the mail server of the target domain.

#telnet alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com 25
Trying 74.125.192.27...
Connected to alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mx.google.com ESMTP k9si1053537qte.22 - gsmtp
#helo gmail
250 mx.google.com at your service
#mail from: <youremail@domain.com>
250 2.1.0 OK k9si1053537qte.22 - gsmtp
#rcpt to: <validmail@gmail.com>
250 2.1.5 OK k9si1053537qte.22 - gsmtp
^]
telnet> q
Connection closed.

Note that hotmail does not allow these kinds of email verifications and so we will not get the exact result hotmail addresses.

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