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Resolve the domain of an email address to see if it even has a chance of delivering
Resolve the domain of a syntactically valid email address to see if there is even a chance of deliverability. Also checks against a large list of disposable email and other junk/unwated address domains and rejects those.
npm install resolve-email
import { resolveEmail } from 'resolve-email'
// Validate the email address before passing it in here:
const results = await resolveEmail('person@gmailc.om')
console.log(results)
// results.emailResolves true/false
// results.mxRecords [array of mx records and priorities]
// results.error any errors that may have occurred.
This module was adapted from nodemailer/nodemailer-direct-transport
The disposable email domain list is generated from the following data sources:
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Resolve the domain of an email address to see if it even has a chance of delivering
The npm package resolve-email receives a total of 165 weekly downloads. As such, resolve-email popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that resolve-email demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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