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“Is it possible to weed out bad e-mail addresses as they are collected? Can I validate an e-mail address in real-time?” Yes you can!

An e-mail address can tell you a lot about the validity of your leads, prospects, or users. For example, an e-mail address that combines a mailbox name and company domain (e.g. rob.wilson@xerox.com), is most likely a high quality e-mail address. Conversely, e-mail addresses that contain vulgar words from dispensable e-mail services are likely to indicate fraud.

DOTS Email Validation can identify 90% of bogus and undeliverable e-mail addresses. Reducing bad e-mail addresses can save your business countless hours of wasted time and money spent pursuing dead-end contacts.

DOTS Email Validation^SM is a hosted, programmable XML Web Service that delivers the most accurate e-mail address information in the industry, and instantly verifies whether or not an e-mail address is valid and can receive messages. DOTS Email Validation allows your business to integrate e-mail address validation and correction into your applications, CRM systems, business processes, and Web sites. Additional DOTS Email Validation features include:

• Syntax and top level domain validation
• DNS, SMTP, and mailbox level confirmation
• Bogus, disposable, and vulgar word detection
• Detection of improper e-mail address formats
• Identification of catch-all and free e-mail servers

The DOTS Email Validation Web Service verifies e-mail address format, DNS MX records, SMTP availability, and (when needed) verifies names on the SMTP server. DOTS Email Validation also compares e-mail address elements against those in our data collection of known fraudulent e-mail addresses.

Several factors should be considered when evaluating the quality of an e-mail address. Quality indicators include top-level domain, mailbox name, country of origin, frequency of usage, whether or not it’s a free e-mail service, and bogus word filtering.

Standard integration of DOTS Email Validation is very straight-forward and takes a developer only days to implement. Almost any language can integrate with DOTS Web Services, allowing users to program their applications in the language of their choice. Service Objects also offers a developer’s guide and sample code for most programming environments. Service Object’s expert developers are ready to help with your integration process and can even write custom example code for you. They are also available to discuss integration quality and verify that it is fully robust.

<?php ini_set("soap.wsdl_cache_enabled","0"); $wsdlUrl = "http://trial.serviceobjects.com/ev2/emailvalidation2.asmx?WSDL"; $Email = "rob.wilson@xerox.com"; $LicenseKey = "ENTER YOUR LICENSE KEY HERE"; $soapClient = new SoapClient($wsdlUrl); $SoapResponse = $soapClient->ValidateEmailFast(array("EmailAddress" => $Email, "LicenseKey" => $LicenseKey)); $ResultNode = $SoapResponse->ValidateEmailFastResult; if (isset($ResultNode)) {   if (!isset($ResultNode->Error)) {     foreach($ResultNode->EmailValidateInfo as $var=>$value)       echo "$var: $value ";   } else {     foreach($ResultNode->Error as $node) echo $node." ";   } } else echo "No Response Found"; ?>

To download the full PHP 5 example code or view our Sample Code Library click here.

For only pennies per transaction, DOTS Email Validation provides users with the fastest and most accurate e-mail validation tool available. Email addresses can be validated in a batch, real-time, or through our Web Services interface. Furthermore, the service is compatible with all Internet standards, so you can integrate e-mail address lookup and validation into your company without making any costly changes to your business processes.