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Advanced Email Verifier
When some Internet users move from one service provider
to another, they do not take their email address along with them.
Users who lost their email accounts may not notify you of their
loss. Internet users may choose to subscribe to your service with
a phony email address so that they have access to a free download
or a free offer that you may be offering online. Hence, you are
left with dead email addresses.
Avoid sending newsletters to bad addresses. If you
ultimately decide to use a commercial service to manage your list
and send your newsletters, you will usually pay either by the
number of sent messages or by the size of your list. If you handle
the newsletter mailing yourself, then it becomes a time issue.
In other case, you will have to deal with bounced messages.
List hygiene plays a role in the delivery race.
It is important to maintain a clean mailing list and remove bounced/undeliverable
emails because a lot of ISP mail servers have been known to block
a sender's email domain for repeated sending messages to non-existing
email addresses.
The average email address lifespan is approximately
three years. What happens to old, abandoned addresses? Rather
than kill them, many ISPs recycle them to new users or add them
to filters as "spamtrap" addresses. (A spamtrap is an
email address used by a filtering service to identify spam. Many
are created by filtering services and placed in public domains,
such as chat rooms and message boards.) Either way, email sent
to a spamtrap doesn't bounce. It's received by someone and considered
spam, or sent straight into a blackhole (deleted), along with
all the rest of your messages to that ISP's users. Thought cleaning
your list wasn't high priority? It's mandatory.
AEV is designed for system administrators, webmasters,
programmers as well as for those advanced users who have their
own mailing lists and would like to keep them up-to-date.
There is no need to disturb your clients and friends
anymore to check if their e-mail addresses are still valid. AEV
connects directly to their SMTP server and checks it for you.
Nothing is sent to the recipient. AEV works in your system tray.
AEV verifies every e-mail address from a specified
mailing list, allowing you to determine up to 80% of "dead"
mail addresses. For some addresses, such as AOL, Yahoo, and other
non-SMTP mail, you can't verify whether the address is good or
not. You won't know definitively until some bounce. The mail server
won't cooperate, so you can set the Rules in Advanced Email Verifier
either to assume they're all good or they're all bad in order
not to waste time for checking such email addresses. The screen
capture above shows the kinds of messages you're likely to see
when the verification is complete. Please, note that the tool
is fast, but not instantaneous. The speed depends on the size
of your list, your connection, and the speed of the Web. If your
list is really big, you may run it at night.
AEV supports import from Windows Address Book (.WAB)
as well as through ODBC SQL to allow to get e-mail addresses from
external sources.
When you've completed the verification using a licensed
copy, you can export good email addresses to Paradox, DBase, Excel,
Text (.CSV), HTML, Word, Lotus 1-2-3, QuattroPro or MS Access
database files. This will be the list you use for your newsletter.
Additionally, verifying the addresses using a tool
isn't enough. Unless your addresses came from a customer database,
you probably want to remove all administrative addresses such
as orders@*, support@*, listserv@* to which you don't want the
newsletter goes. There are more, but that's a good start. If you
don't remove these, then you'll receive automated replies from
a lot of places. Now to remove such email addresses you can use
a powerful Search/Filter Engine from Advanced Email Verifier.
AEV helps to decrease Internet traffic, because
you can clean your mailing list beforehand, keeping you from sending
undeliverable messages that cause a ping-pong of useless messages
between SMTP servers. In addition to saving your Internet resources,
AEV helps you to save money.
Purchase the full version for only
$35
Download free demo version
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