reacherhq/check-if-email-exists
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Check if an email address exists without sending any email, written in Rust. Comes with a ⚙️ HTTP backend.
7 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 1 story, 6 comments · first 2021-07-01 · latest 2022-12-11
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I started with open-source. I initially created https://github.com/reacherhq/check-if-email-exists , after some years it got to ~50 stars and nice overall feedback, that's when I thought of a SaaS wrapper on top of it. So a possible path…
comment by amaury_reacher · 2022-12-11 · in Ask HN: Those with money-making side projects,how did you come up with the idea? -
…does not use a DB of emails (like some competitors do). Landing page: https://reacher.email . [1]: https://github.com/reacherhq/check-if-email-exists
comment by amaurym10 · 2021-12-24 · in Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell -
GitHub issues like this one warm my heart: https://github.com/reacherhq/check-if-email-exists/issues/91 Identifying something that needs doing, especially when you have no idea how to do it, is a bold skill. Too often have I seen engineers…
comment by gorgoiler · 2021-07-02 · in Check If Email Exists -
…are doing this are they violating CANSPAM? EDIT: Looks like they are indeed doing the SMTP method: https://github.com/reacherhq/check-if-email-exists/blob/a052... I also found a similar, much bigger service here that appears to have been…
comment by aussieguy1234 · 2021-07-02 · in Check If Email Exists -
If you want to know the "how?" as I did - code is here, specifically https://github.com/reacherhq/check-if-email-exists/blob/mast... tl;dr, According to RFC 5321, `RCPT TO` command succeeds with 250 and 251. So email is valid if you get to…
comment by nickstinemates · 2021-07-02 · in Check If Email Exists -
That's what this project does too: https://github.com/reacherhq/check-if-email-exists/blob/a052...
comment by anonydsfsfs · 2021-07-02 · in Check If Email Exists