Validating E-mail Addresses

To validate the addresses in your mailing list:

Select "Tools" > Validate E-mail Addresses on the main toolbar.

There are three validation options available:

• Quick Validation: This is the same as Domain Validation, however it skips domains that it checked last time.  You can use this option if you frequently validate addresses, however you should still do a full Domain Validation every few weeks to find domains that used to be valid, but aren't any longer

• Domain Validation (Recommended): This is the most reliable validation method.  It checks that the domain is valid (e.g. AOL.COM of john@aol.com), but does not check the username portion. 

• E-mail Validation: Both the username and domain portion of the address are validated, e.g. for john@aol.com, both "AOL.COM" and "john@" are validated.  Unfortunately many mail servers these days will not return reliable results to this kind of validation, so its use is not recommended

You also need to specify the number of simultaneous checking threads. The ideal setting for this will depend on the speed of your internet connection and computer. A small number will result in less errors, but a higher number will be much faster.

Finally the time-out value is the maximum number of seconds that MailList King will attempt to check each address before giving up.
 

To view validated addresses:

In the main window choose the "Custom Filters" tab.  From the drop down box choose one of the following filters:

• Members whose e-mail addresses have been validated

Lists all addresses that MailList King checked and found to be valid

• Members whose e-mail addresses failed validation

Lists all addresses that MailList King checked and encountered an error during validation

See Also

• Quick Start Guide