Emails & verification

Every email that works. Checked before it counts.

Leadraft reads each business’s own website for its email addresses, then asks the mail server whether each mailbox is real. Verified, accept-all and invalid are graded separately, so you only send to addresses that answer.

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  • maps listing
  • sitemap
  • own website
  • MX record
  • mailbox check
  • grade

Finding emails

From the business’s own website.

  • Crawls the siteContact, about and team pages, footers, and the links between them.
  • Reads the sitemapFinds the pages a quick crawl would miss.
  • Renders script-heavy sitesOpens pages in a real browser when the email only appears after scripts run.
  • Checks the web archiveFalls back to a public archive copy when a site is down or blocks visitors.
  • Searches the web (Pro and Scale)Looks the business up when its site gives nothing away.
  • Guesses only with a mail serverCommon patterns like info@ are tried only where the domain accepts mail, and are checked like any other.
Bright Smile Dental · Leeds
  • hello@brightsmile.examplegeneral · found on contact pageChecking…
  • dr.patel@brightsmile.exampleowner · found on team pageChecking…
  • bookings@brightsmile.examplebookings · found on rendered pageChecking…
  • practice.manager@brightsmile.examplemanager · found on sitemapChecking…
  • info@brightsmile-old.examplegeneral · found on web archiveChecking…

Example business. Invalid addresses are kept for reference and never exported.

Up to five emails per business, each with its role and the page it came from. ~54% of business websites give up an email (found, before verification.)

What Verified means

A mailbox answered. Nothing less.

Every address gets one of three grades. Only Verified addresses export by default, and only Verified addresses use a checked-email credit.
  • Verified

    The mail server confirmed this mailbox exists.

    Exported by default. One checked-email credit.

  • Accept-all

    The server says yes to every address, so we can’t be sure.

    A maybe, never a yes. Free. You choose whether to export.

  • Invalid

    The mailbox doesn’t exist or the domain takes no mail.

    Never exported. Free.

How the check works

A handshake, not a message.

We never send an email to test an address. The check stops before anything is delivered.
  1. 01

    Find the mail server

    Look up the domain’s MX records. No server, no email: graded invalid.

  2. 02

    Ask about the mailbox

    Open a connection and ask whether this exact address exists.

  3. 03

    Test for catch-all

    Ask about an address that can’t exist. If the server says yes to that too, it says yes to everything.

  4. 04

    Grade and hang up

    Record Verified, Accept-all or Invalid, then close the connection. Nothing is sent.

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Suppression

Never email someone who asked you not to.

Keep a do-not-contact list of emails and domains. It is applied to every export and push, automatically. Bounces reported back from Instantly are added for you.

  • Everyexport checked against your list
  • Autobounces from Instantly added
Export · Austin plumbers · Verified only
  • owner@lonestarplumbing.example
  • info@eastsideplumbing.exampleon your do-not-contact list
  • hello@hillcountrywater.example
  • office@capitolpipes.examplebounced in Instantly
  • team@sorelfix.example

3 leads exported · 2 removed by your suppression list

Everything else per lead

45 columns, not just an email.

Phone, website, address, hours, rating and reviews, eight social networks, which website builder the business uses, and whether it is inside your area.

  • business
  • category
  • email
  • email grade
  • email role
  • email source
  • email_2 … email_5
  • phone
  • phone type
  • website
  • website platform
  • contact form
  • address
  • city
  • state
  • postal code
  • country
  • lat / lng
  • in area
  • distance km
  • rating
  • reviews
  • price level
  • hours
  • maps url
  • place id
  • first seen
  • last seen
  • facebook
  • instagram
  • linkedin
  • x
  • tiktok
  • youtube
  • yelp
  • whatsapp

Questions

Verification, answered.

Do you send an email to check an address?
No. We look up the domain’s mail servers and ask the server whether the mailbox exists, then hang up before anything is sent. The business never receives a message from us.
What is an accept-all (catch-all) address?
Some mail servers say yes to every address, real or not, so a check can’t prove the mailbox exists. We grade those Accept-all: a maybe, never a yes. You decide whether to send to them.
What does a checked-email credit pay for?
One credit per verified email you take out of Leadraft. Accept-all and invalid grades never use a credit.
What if a business has no email on its website?
You still get the phone number, website, address and social profiles. On Pro and Scale, Leadraft also tries a web search for the address before giving up.

Send to people who can receive it.

50 checked emails free every month on the Free plan. No card.

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