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How do you verify if a given email address is real or fake?

How to verify an Email Address ( real or fake ) ? A simple solution is that send a test mail to that email address and if your message doesn't bounce, it is safe to assume that the address is real. But some web domains are including a new configuration to catch all email address meaning is that messages send to a address to a non-existent mailbox will not be returned to the sender but in most cases, such email messages will bounce. How to validate a Email Address? - Answer is Ping when a email is send, the message goes to an SMTP server which then looks for the Mail Exchange records of the email recipient's domain. For Instance,When you send a email to xyz@ gmail.com , the mail server will try to find the Mail Exchange records for the gmail.com domain. If the records exist, the next step would be to determine whether that email username (xyz in our example) is present or not. Using a similar logic, we can verify an email address from the computer without actually sending a tes...