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Check whether a mailbox accepts mail before you trust it

Paste an email address. contact.verify asks the mail server whether that mailbox exists and returns valid, invalid or unknown, with the catch-all flag, the mail provider (Google Workspace, Microsoft 365) and the company behind the domain. When one verifier has no answer, the next one tries in the same call.

Real run: 1 record $0.002 per verdict contact.verify MCP · REST · CLI

Ask your agent

Check these five addresses and tell me which ones are safe to email.

Connect RouterGrowth once, then ask in plain words. New workspaces start with $1 of credit. Get a key or read the setup guide.

A real run

What does it return?

One call to contact.verify (email deliverability check), run through RouterGrowth on October 26, 2026. These are the first rows it returned; fields that name a person are masked.

1records returned
15.0 sto answer
$0.0125charged for the run
emailstatusmx_provider
p***@***.cominvalidGoogle Workspace

A press mailbox printed on a company site: two verifiers gave no verdict, the third returned invalid on Google Workspace.

Step by step

How do you do it?

  1. Paste the address

    One address per call. For a list, run the calls as a batch.

  2. Call contact.verify

    The verifiers are tried in turn until one gives a verdict.

  3. Read the status

    valid means the mailbox accepts mail, invalid means the server refused it, unknown means no verifier could decide.

  4. Decide

    Send to valid, drop invalid, and recheck unknown later or ask for another address.

Price

What does it cost?

List prices on this call, read from the catalog when this page was built. The exact figure is quoted before every run, and a monthly plan lowers it.

$0.002per verdict
No seatand no monthly plan needed
$0when the call finds nothing

In practice

What do you ask it?

You describe the job; the agent picks the calls, shows the price and runs them.

Check these five addresses and tell me which ones are safe to email.

Find the work email of Alex Rivera at example.com, then check it before I write.

Connect

How do you connect it?

One MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Codex and Cursor, or the same call over the CLI and REST with the input above.

MCP server
claude mcp add --transport http routergrowth https://api.routergrowth.com/mcp
CLI
npm install -g routergrowth && routergrowth setup
routergrowth run -c contact.verify -i '{"email": "press@example.com"}'
REST
curl -X POST https://api.routergrowth.com/v1/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ROUTERGROWTH_API_KEY" \
  -d '{"capability": "contact.verify", "input": {"email": "press@example.com"}}'

Worth knowing

What should you know first?

Role mailboxes behave differently

A press or support address printed on a site can still come back invalid, because group mailboxes often do not answer like a personal inbox. Treat invalid as do not send, and confirm a key address another way.

Unknown is free

Only a valid or invalid verdict is charged. When a verifier cannot decide, the next one tries at no cost.

No email is sent

The check talks to the mail server; nothing lands in the inbox.

FAQ

Questions about email checker

What does invalid mean?

The mail server said the mailbox does not exist or will not take mail. A send to it would most likely bounce.

What is a catch-all domain?

A domain whose server accepts every address, so a single mailbox cannot be confirmed. The catch_all field flags it when the verifier reports it.

Why did several verifiers run?

The first two had no verdict for this address. The router moved on until one answered, all in one call.

Can I check role addresses like press or support?

Yes. In this run two verifiers had no verdict for a role address and the third one answered.

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