First, sign in to your Hotmail account once you are looking at your inbox, click on the " Options" button near the top right corner of the page, and pick " More options" from the dropdown menu to access your profile information:.Yahoo will say We couldn’t match the Yahoo ID you entered with information in our database if the email address does not exist.Follow these steps to check since when you have been a Hotmail user / Windows Live user: Go to Yahoo’s account recovery page at /forgot, enter the email address that you are checking for validity and click the Next button. You will get an error saying The Microsoft account is incorrect. Go to /ResetPassword, choose the I forgot my password option and enter the Outlook email address. For valid email address, the error would say Someone already has that username. If that address is not valid, Google will throw an error saying No account found with that email address.Īlternatively, you can go to the Gmail Sign-up page at /SignUp and try creating a new Gmail account with the address that you are trying to verify. Enter the email address that you are trying to verify - it could be an address or a Google Apps address - and choose Continue.
Go to Google’s password assistance page at /accounts/recovery and choose the I don’t know my password option. I have tested this with Google Apps, Yahoo Mail and Outlook (Hotmail) and the method works with them all. Here if you enter an email address that does exist, the service is mostly likely to tell you that the particular user name does not exist. The service will ask for your email address where they can send the password recovery instructions. Go to the login page of the email service and pretend that you no longer remember the password of your email account. Let me share an extremely simple method for checking if an email address is valid and exists or not. If the server response is an error code, the email address is probably not valid. You connect to the mail server through telnet ( see video), enter your email address and the other email address that you are trying to verify.
The other slightly technical option to verify an email address is by querying the mail server.
The approach works but wouldn’t it be nice if you could check any email address instantly without even sending that test message? How do you know if an email address exists or not? The easy option would be that you send a dummy mail to that email address, wait for an hour or so and if your message bounces, it is very likely that the particular email address does not exist.
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