Jesin A

<p>Most email validators look for an <code>@</code> and a <code>.</code>(dot) some go further and blacklist certain domain names. But Mailgun’s Advanced email validation service goes deeper and looks for the existence of the domain name, presence of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MX_record" rel="nofollow ugc">MX record</a> and the custom ESP(Email Service Provider) grammar.<br />
The grammar here is the rules defined by each email provider. For example, Yahoo Mail addresses can only contain letters, numbers, underscores, and one period.<br />
So <code>user.name.abc@yahoo.com</code> perfectly passes the <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_email" rel="nofollow ugc">is_email()</a> function but can never exist as it contains more than one period. Such addresses can’t escape Mailgun’s Email validation.</p>
<h4>Why use Mailgun’s email validation service?</h4>
<ul>
<li>Performs the usual email syntax check.</li>
<li>Checks the existence of the email domain. So <code>user@some-random-characters.com</code> can’t escape.</li>
<li>Checks if the email domain has a MX record. So <code>anything@example.com</code> is caught.</li>
<li>Checks if the username complies with the grammar of its ESP (Email Service provider). Eg Gmail doesn’t allow usernames less than 6 characters and hyphens so <code>small@gmail.com</code> and <code>hyphen-user@gmail.com</code> can’t get away.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Why use this plugin?</h4>
<ul>
<li>Integrates with the <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_email" rel="nofollow ugc">is_email()</a> function of WordPress. So it works seamlessly with Contact Form 7, Jetpack/Grunion contact forms, WordPress registration form and any form which uses the <code>is_email()</code> function.</li>
<li>Kicks spam before it is inserted into the database</li>
<li>Ensures that the commenting process is uninterrupted even if Mailgun suffers a <a href="http://status.mailgun.com" rel="nofollow ugc">downtime</a></li>
<li>Works completely transparent, nothing changes in the frontend</li>
</ul>
<p>This plugin requires a Mailgun Public API Key which can be obtained by <a href="https://mailgun.com/signup" rel="nofollow ugc">signing up at Mailgun</a>.</p>
<p>If you’re trying out this plugin on a local WAMP/LAMP/MAMP installation make sure your system is connected to the Internet for this plugin to contact Mailgun.</p>
<h4>Available Languages</h4>
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>Serbo-Croatian by <a href="http://www.webhostinghub.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Borisa Djuraskovic</a></li>
<li>Spanish by <a href="http://www.webhostinghub.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Andrew Kurtis</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Further Reading</h4>
<p>Read about Mailgun’s email validation service.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://blog.mailgun.com/post/free-email-validation-api-for-web-forms/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://blog.mailgun.com/post/free-email-validation-api-for-web-forms/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://blog.mailgun.com/post/weekly-product-update-improvements-to-email-validation-api/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://blog.mailgun.com/post/weekly-product-update-improvements-to-email-validation-api/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://mailgun.github.io/validator-demo/" rel="nofollow ugc">Mailgun Address Validator demo</a> and its <a href="https://github.com/mailgun/validator-demo/tree/gh-pages" rel="nofollow ugc">source code</a></li>
<li>The <a href="https://websistent.com/wordpress-plugins/mailgun-email-validator/" rel="nofollow ugc">Mailgun Email Validator Plugin</a> official homepage.</li>
</ul>


Mailgun Email Validator

Implementing this plugin is straight forward and simple.

Works perfectly

Kick spam with a highly advanced email validation in comment forms, user registration and contact forms using Mailgun's Email validation service.

quickemailverification

<p>An email verification plugin by <a href="http://quickemailverification.com" rel="nofollow ugc">QuickEmailVerification</a> enables you to validate and verify the email address existence in real time, before you actually send them an email. Its unique email verification system is composed of multiple different validations starting from syntax checking to the end users’ mailbox existence checking. It not only detects invalid email addresses but also detects many other types of poor email addresses which could negatively impact the email deliverability and harm your sender reputation.</p>
<p>This plugin need a QuickEmailVerification API key to verify. You can get it from <a href="https://quickemailverification.com/apisettings" title="Get your API key" rel="nofollow ugc">API settings</a> page of QuickEmailVerification service.</p>
<h4>Key features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Email address syntax checking</li>
<li>Domain/MX records checking</li>
<li>Role address detection</li>
<li>Disposable email address (DEA) detection</li>
<li>Free email service detection</li>
<li>Typo detection and suggestion</li>
<li>Accept all email checking</li>
<li>Mailbox existence checking</li>
</ul>
<h4>Supported form Plugins</h4>
<ul>
<li>Contact Form 7</li>
<li>Formidable forms</li>
<li>Ninja forms</li>
<li>WooCommerce</li>
<li>WPForms</li>
<li>Profile Builder</li>
<li>Contact Form by BestWebSoft</li>
<li>Ultimate Member registration form</li>
<li>Fluent Forms</li>
<li>WPEverest forms</li>
<li>MailPoet</li>
<li>Theme My Login</li>
<li>WP-Members</li>
<li>Visual Form Builder</li>
<li>PlanSo forms</li>
<li>Buddypress registration form</li>
<li>Any other form which uses the is_email() function</li>
</ul>
<p>This plugin works either with “is_email()” function or with any other supported form plugins. So if any supported form plugin is enabled, “is_email()” hook will automatically be disabled.</p>
<p>To know more about email verification results, please have a look at the <a href="http://docs.quickemailverification.com/getting-started/understanding-email-verification-result" rel="nofollow ugc">QuickEmailVerification knowledge base</a>.</p>


QuickEmailVerification

The QuickEmailVerification email verification plugin to avoid fake, bad and nonexistent emails.

Mailgun Email Validator vs QuickEmailVerification