---
title: "Validate an email address and return structured signals..."
method: GET
path: "/api/email/validate"
tags: ["email"]
---

# Validate an email address and return structured signals...

`GET /api/email/validate`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://2s.io`
- URL: `https://2s.io/api/email/validate`
- Auth: API key in header `PAYMENT-SIGNATURE`

Validate an email address and return structured signals: RFC syntax validity (isSyntaxValid + reason if not), the normalized address with split local/domain, and boolean flags for isDisposable (throwaway/temp-mail domain), isRoleAccount (info@, support@, admin@, …), and isFreeProvider (gmail/outlook/yahoo/icloud/…). With checkMx (default true) it also reports hasMxRecords — whether the domain publishes MX records, looked up live via DNS-over-HTTPS — plus the MX hosts. IMPORTANT: this is NOT a deliverability or mailbox-existence guarantee (catch-all domains, greylisting, and privacy relays make that impossible to assert from a single lookup); hasMxRecords reflects DNS MX presence only. Useful for signup-flow hygiene, lead scrubbing, and flagging disposable/role addresses before sending.

## Query parameters

- `email` string, required
- `checkMx` boolean
- `trial` 1

## Other responses

- `200` (unresolved $ref)
- `400`: Invalid request — not charged. error.code: BAD_REQUEST or INVALID_PARAM (parameter validation; error.details.issues lists each problem), MALFORMED_JSON, or a request-specific code. Other client errors: 405 METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED (wrong verb; see the Allow header), 413 PAYLOAD_TOO_LARGE.
- `402`: Payment required. Body is the x402 PaymentRequirements envelope with a multi-network accepts array; the per-call price is in accepts[].amount (and on the operation as x-2s-price). Sign for whichever rail you hold USDC on (EIP-3009 for Base, partial SPL transfer for Solana) and retry with the PAYMENT-SIGNATURE header (X-PAYMENT also accepted for v1 clients). Also PAYMENT_SETTLE_FAILED (error envelope) when a verified payment failed to settle: error.details.chargeStatus is "not_charged" (retry with a fresh payment) or "unknown" (the authorization may still settle before its deadline — check it before retrying).
- `429`: Too many requests — RATE_LIMITED: our per-IP / per-payer limiter. Not charged; retry after Retry-After.
- `5XX`: Server-side failure. 500 INTERNAL: unexpected error; quote error.errorId (also the X-2s-Error-Id header). 502 UPSTREAM_UNAVAILABLE (or another UPSTREAM_* code): the data provider failed — composite endpoints refuse unbilled when every source fails. 503 SERVICE_PAUSED: endpoint paused by the operator kill switch, retry after Retry-After; 503 SPEND_CAP: daily upstream budget exhausted. 504 UPSTREAM_TIMEOUT. Not charged.

---

[API](https://skmtc.dev/2s-io/apis/2s-the-most-everything-api.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/2s-io/apis/2s-the-most-everything-api/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/2s-io/apis/2s-the-most-everything-api/revisions/da4c5caf686e?raw)