Frequently Asked Questions

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General

• What is EmailVerify.NET?
• What does EmailVerify.NET do and how can it help me?
• What do I need to run EmailVerify.NET?
• How do I use EmailVerify.NET?
• Can EmailVerify.NET run within an ASP.NET web site?
• How can I validate e-mail addresses in my PowerShell scripts?

Verification process

• Which email address validations does EmailVerify.NET perform?
• What is and hard bounce?
• How does EmailVerify.NET solve hard bounce detection?
• Does EmailVerify.NET actually send any email?
• Does EmailVerify.NET guarantees a given email address exists?
• Is it possible to verify more than one email address at once?
• Which verification level should I use?

Performance

• How well does EmailVerify.NET perform?
• What is the parallel execution (batch mode) feature?
• How many email address verification could take place at once using EmailVerify.NET's batch mode?

Tips and tricks

• Checking the same domain repeatedly in a small amount of time.
• Use static instance to maximize internal cache hits.

Configuration

• How can mailbox and catch-all validations accuracy be increased?
• What is the LocalSmtpEndPoint property used for?
• What is the LocalHostFqdn property used for?
• What is the LocalSenderAddress property used for?

System requirements

• Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Seven, Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008
• .NET framework v2.0 or newer
• 2Mb free disk space