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Email Validation

Submits an email address to the service to be validated and returns the result of the validation.

post/email/validation/v1

Headers

Reference-Idstring

Optional identifier that will be returned in the response to help you track the request.

Request body

emailstring required

The email address that is the subject of the validation.

timeoutinteger

Maximum time you are prepared to wait for a response, expressed in seconds. Acceptable values: 3-15. If a timeout occurs, a confidence status of "unknown" and a verbose result of "timeout" will be returned.

Example request

{
  "email": "support@experian.com"
}

Response

OK

reference_idstring nullable

If you chose to submit a "Reference-Id" in the response body, the value will be returned with the response.

transaction_idstring nullable

Unique Experian-assigned transaction identifier.

Example response

{
  "transaction_id": "ab123ab1-abc1-1234-abcd-ab1a123a1a12",
  "error": {
    "title": "Bad Request",
    "detail": "The request body was malformed."
  },
  "result": {
    "email": "support@experian.com",
    "verbose": "verified, mailboxFull, unreachable"
  }
}

Changes

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