email-smtp-verificator

Email SMTP Verificator

Based on bighappyworld's email-verify module.

Requirements

node.js >= 6.4.0

Usage

const emailSMTPVerificator = require('./email-smtp-verificator');

const verify = emailSMTPVerificator({ timeout: 12000 });

verify('[e-mail]')
  .then((info) => { console.log(info); })
  .catch(console.log); // empty or non-string email

Callback

The callback is a function that has an info object:

{
  email: string,
  verified: boolean,
  // error case attributes
  stage: integer, // stage at which the error occurred
  message: string // error message
}

Options

The options are:

{
  port : integer,// port to connect with defaults to 25
  sender : email, // sender address, defaults to [e-mail]
  timeout : integer, // socket timeout defaults to 0 which is no timeout
  fqdn : domain, // used as part of the EHLO, defaults to mail.example.org
  ignore: // set an ending response code integer to ignore, such as 450 for greylisted emails
}

Flow

The basic flow has following stages:

1. Validate it is a proper email address.
2. Get the domain of the email and grab the DNS MX records for that domain.
3. Create a TCP connection to the smtp-server. Connect to the next smpt-server in MX records list if connection to the current one fails.
4. Send a EHLO message.
5. Send a MAIL FROM message.
6. Send a RCPT TO message. The result of email verification depends on the server's response at this stage.
7. Send a QUIT message. Close the connection cleanly.