/tools/email-verify is the first cut of the email-verifier suite, intentionally scoped to the checks that don’t need outbound SMTP.
Four checks per address:
- Syntax — RFC 5321 grammar (local part ≤ 64 chars, total ≤ 254, allowed characters in local and domain parts, no leading/trailing dots in the local part).
- MX records — does the domain actually accept mail? Lists every MX with priority and exchange hostname.
- Disposable provider — checks against a curated list of ~400 throwaway-email providers (Mailinator, 10minutemail, Guerrilla Mail, the whole Tempmail family, etc.). Hit = warning, not invalid — disposable addresses are real, they just signal a low-value signup.
- Role-based local-part —
info@,support@,admin@,noreply@and friends. Hit = soft warning, replies tend to be triaged differently and bounce rates are higher.
The verdict combines those four into one of: Valid · domain accepts mail, Valid — but disposable provider, Valid — role-based address, Invalid syntax, Domain has no MX. The detailed checks + the MX record list are always shown so you can see exactly why.
What’s not in v0: a real SMTP probe (MAIL FROM / RCPT TO to the MX) that would confirm the specific mailbox exists. That’s a separate effort — it needs outbound port 25, a clean IP with proper rDNS, and catch-all detection logic to be useful. Tracked at FerrLens-Cloud#43; v0 ships now because it already catches the bulk of real-world signup garbage.