Features¶
> 99.9% Service Availability¶
Fully load balanced and automatic fail-over systems dispersed across multiple data centers in multiple regions deliver enterprise grade resilience.
See Service Reliability for more information on availability and SLA.
Fanatical Service Quality Management (SQM)¶
Email Hippo operational staff obsessively monitor services to ensure the best possible uptime and coverage.
Uptime and functional correctness is actively monitored on a minute by minute basis from multiple data centers dispersed across North America, Europe and Asia.
Fast, Transparent Response Times¶
Every query response includes stopwatch data that shows the time taken to execute the request.
Multi Factor Verification¶
Progressive verification using multiple verification processes including:
- Syntax checking
- DNS checking
- Mailbox checking
Unrivalled Coverage¶
With more than 5 years experience and the benefit of owning our own software stack, Email Hippo has evolved its services to provide good coverage not only of the easier B2B domains but also the more technically challenging B2C domains including:
- Hotmail
- Yahoo
- AOL
- Yandex
Spam Trap Detection¶
After many years R&D, Email Hippo has developed technology that can effectively identify any probable Spam Trap.
Unrivalled Performance¶
Strategic data centers in North America, Europe and Asia, aggressive caching and cloud based auto-scaling deliver outstanding performance. Typical queries are answered between 0.2 to 1.5 seconds.
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On Screen Reporting¶
Every account comes with a secure online portal for customers to view their current and historic usage via simple but powerful, user friendly charts and reports.
Thoughtful Versioning¶
Endpoints are “versioned”. This means that Email Hippo can continue to release new functionality without “breaking” existing clients committed to integrating with our systems on legacy endpoints.
What it does¶
Email Hippo is used to check email addresses in real-time. Not only are syntax and domain checked, but that the user mailbox is available too. This is the only way to know for sure if an email address is valid.
Additionally identified as part of the email verification process is extra information including:
How it works¶
Email addresses are verified using various filters and processes. As a high level overview, an email address submitted for verification goes thorough the following filters:
- Syntax
- A basic inspection of the syntax of the email address to see if it looks valid. Work is done only using server CPU based on simple pattern matching algorithms.
- DNS A
Verifies a domain exists in DNS. Domains that do not exist in DNS cannot have mail servers or email boxes.
DNS checks are performed over the network.
- DNS MX
Verify MX records using DNS. Domains that do not have MX records, have no mail servers and therefore no valid email boxes.
MX checks are performed over the network.
- MailBox
Verify email boxes with SMTP checks.
Connect to mail server and perform SMTP protocol to verify if mailbox exists.
This is the deepest level of verification. It is performed over the network.