Statuses
- Valid - the recipient’s mail server has confirmed that the email address is valid and safe to send to.
- Invalid - the email address is either incorrect or does not exist, meaning it cannot receive mail.
- Risky - this email address may have quality issues, potentially leading to bounces or low engagement. Risky categories include Accept All, Disposable, and Role-based addresses.
- Unknown - proofy did not receive a response from the recipient’s server, possibly due to slowness or temporary unavailability. You may retry after 5 minutes. No credits will be charged for unknown results.
Sub statuses
Valid
The email address was reachable, accepted, and passed all verification checks.
Invalid
- Bad syntax: The email format is incorrect (invalid syntax).
- No MX: No MX record found, indicating emails cannot be delivered to this address.
- SMTP can’t connect: Unable to connect to the email’s SMTP server.
- SMTP not deliverable: The email is undeliverable via the SMTP protocol.
- Disabled: The email is disabled, and an email is not accepted.
Risky
- Disposable: A temporary email, often used for one-time purposes.
- Catch-all: The domain accepts all emails, increasing undeliverability risk.
- Full inbox: The inbox is full, which may prevent new emails.
- Role no-reply: A role-based email (e.g., no-reply), usually not intended for replies.
- Possible spam trap: A potential spam trap, which could harm deliverability and sender reputation.
Unknown
The email status could not be determined due to a timeout or an unexpected error.
Columns to Include
These columns can be selected for inclusion in your exported data:
- Reachable - indicates if the email server is reachable.
- Domain - shows the domain part of the email address.
- Role no-reply - identifies if the address is a role-based, no-reply address.
- MX has records - indicates whether the domain has MX records.
- Full inbox - shows if the inbox is currently full.
- Disabled - marks addresses that are disabled.
- Syntax - checks if the email address has valid syntax.
- Free - identifies if the email address is from a free provider (e.g., Gmail).
- Possible spam trap - marks potential spam traps.
- MX accepts mail - indicates if the domain’s MX server is accepting mail.
- Catch-all - identifies domains that accept all emails.
- Username - shows the username part of the email address.
- Role account - indicates if the address is role-based (e.g., support@, info@).
- Disposable - marks temporary email addresses.
- Can connect - this shows if a connection to the email server was successful.
- Deliverable - indicates if the address is deliverable.
