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pyemailval is a package for Python that check if an email is valid, properly formatted and really exists.
You can install the package with pip:
pip install pyemailval
Basic usage::
from pyemailval import validate_email
is_valid = validate_email('example@example.com', check_regex=True, check_mx=True)
check_regex will check will the email address has a valid structure and defaults to True check_mx will check the mx-records and check whether the email actually exists
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pyemailval verifies if an email address really exists.
We found that pyemailval 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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