How to Validate Email Address

Sometimes you may wonder if an email address is valid or not, or if it even exists. There is a simple way to find out. You can go to the login page of the email service and indicate that you don’t remember the password of that email account. The service will ask for the email address where they can send the password recovery instructions. Here if you enter an email address that does not exist, the service will tell you that the particular user name does not exist.

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Step # 1 - To verify Gmail and Google Apps Accounts
For Gmail accounts, go to Google’s password assistance page at “google.com/accounts/recovery” and choose the “I don’t know my password” option. Enter the email address that you are trying to verify and click on “Continue”. If that address is not valid, Google will send you an error message saying “No account found with that email address”.

You can also go to the Gmail Sign-up page and try creating a new Gmail account with the address that you are trying to verify. For a valid email address, the error message will read: “Someone already has that username”.

Step # 2 - To verify Outlook, Hotmail and Live.com Addresses
For Outlook, Hotmail and Live.com adresses go to the account reset password page: “account.live.com/ResetPassword”; choose the “I forgot my password” option and enter the Outlook email address. You will get an error saying “The Microsoft account is incorrect”, for addresses that do not exist.

Step # 3 - To verify Yahoo Email Addresses
For Yahoo addresses go to Yahoo’s account recovery page: “edit.yahoo.com/forgot”. Enter the email address that you want to validate and click the “Next” button. Yahoo will say “We couldn’t match the Yahoo ID you entered with information in our database” , if the email address does not exist.


And that’s it!
Result: Congratulations! You’ve just learned How to Validate Email Addresses.