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eMail Verifier 3.5 - Mailing List Hygiene Tool

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eMail Verifier - Mailing List Hygiene Tool

eMail Verifier - Mailing List Hygiene Tool

Heinz Tschabitscher
The Bottom Line
eMail Verifier checks email addresses reliably, precisely and in bulk and cleans your mailing lists of undeliverably addresses. It's simple and easy to use, but some advanced features wouldn't be bad.
Pros
  • eMail Verifier verifies addresses reliably and precisely
  • Checks addresses relatively fast and simultaneously
  • eMail Verifier is simple, straight forward and easy to use
Cons
  • eMail Verifier can't connect and write to a database directly
  • String checks could be more flexible, support regular expressions
  • eMail Verifier's validity checks are time- and bandwidth-intensive by design
Description
  • eMail Verifier checks email addresses for their validity.
  • Checks addresses by looking up the MX record and attempting delivery (or using the VRFY command).
  • eMail Verifier can verify single addresses or complete lists in one go.
  • Multi-threaded design allows eMail Verifier to check multiple addresses simultaneously.
  • Good and bad addresses can be saved to results files flexibly with eMail Verifier.
  • eMail Verifier lets you apply simple string-matching rules before thorough texting for pre-sorting.
  • eMail Verifier provides a console that logs all activity and server communication.
  • eMail Verifier supports Windows Me/2000/XP/Vista and Mac OS 9/X.
Guide Review - eMail Verifier 3.5 - Mailing List Hygiene Tool
Bouncing addresses in your mailing lists are not only annoying and useless, they also generate a lot of unnecessary traffic and slow down the delivery of your good messages to the good addresses.

eMail Verifier is an easy to use tool to remove the bad addresses from mailing lists (but it also checks a single address). You input a list, eMail Verifier checks it and lets you save the results flexibly.

The checks eMail Verifier performs are comprehensive and relatively fast, and you can have eMail Verifier run addresses through simple string-matching filters before testing to sort out some always-good or always-bad domains, for example.

Unfortunately, these tests lack a bit in flexibility and power. eMail Verifier's address input and output formats are restricted to plain text files, and it can't connect to databases directly.

All in all, eMail Verifier is a solid and very useful tool, though.

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