Statuses
- Valid: The recipient’s mail server has confirmed that the email address is valid and safe to send to.
- Invalid: The email address is either incorrect or does not exist, meaning it cannot receive mail.
- Risky: This email address may have quality issues, potentially leading to bounces or low engagement. Risky categories include Accept All, Disposable, and Role-based addresses.
- Unknown: Proofy did not receive a response from the recipient’s server, possibly due to slowness or temporary unavailability. You may retry after 5 minutes. No credits will be charged for unknown results.
Sub statuses
Valid:
- The email address was reachable, accepted, and passed all verification checks.
Invalid:
- Bad syntax: The email format is incorrect (invalid syntax).
- No MX: No MX record found, indicating emails cannot be delivered to this address.
- SMTP can’t connect: Unable to connect to the email’s SMTP server.
- SMTP not deliverable: The email is undeliverable via the SMTP protocol.
- Disabled: The email is disabled, and an email is not accepted.
Risky
- Disposable: A temporary email, often used for one-time purposes.
- Catch-all: The domain accepts all emails, increasing undeliverability risk.
- Full inbox: The inbox is full, which may prevent new emails.
- Role no-reply: A role-based email (e.g., no-reply), usually not intended for replies.
- Possible spam trap: A potential spam trap, which could harm deliverability and sender reputation.
Unknown
- The email status could not be determined due to a timeout or an unexpected error.
Columns to Include
These columns can be selected for inclusion in your exported data:
- Reachable: Indicates if the email server is reachable.
- Domain: Shows the domain part of the email address.
- Role no-reply: Identifies if the address is a role-based, no-reply address.
- MX has records: Indicates whether the domain has MX records.
- Full inbox: Shows if the inbox is currently full.
- Disabled: Marks addresses that are disabled.
- Syntax: Checks if the email address has valid syntax.
- Free: Identifies if the email address is from a free provider (e.g., Gmail).
- Possible spam trap: Marks potential spam traps.
- MX accepts mail: Indicates if the domain’s MX server is accepting mail.
- Catch-all: Identifies domains that accept all emails.
- Username: Shows the username part of the email address.
- Role account: Indicates if the address is role-based (e.g., support@, info@).
- Disposable: Marks temporary email addresses.
- Can connect: This shows if a connection to the email server was successful.
- Deliverable: Indicates if the address is deliverable.