# Verify email address (/api-reference/public-api/verifyEmail)

`POST /v1/verify`

Base URL: `https://next-api.useplunk.com`

Verify an email address for validity, check if it's from a disposable domain or personal email provider, verify MX records, and detect potential typos with suggestions.

## Request body

- `email`: string (email) (required) — Email address to verify

Example:

```json
{
  "email": "user@example.com"
}
```

## Responses

### `200` — Email verification completed successfully

- `success`: boolean — Always true for successful requests
- `data`: object
  - `email`: string (email) (required) — Email address that was verified
  - `valid`: boolean (required) — Whether the email appears to be valid overall
  - `isDisposable`: boolean (required) — Whether the email is from a disposable/temporary email domain
  - `isAlias`: boolean (required) — Whether the email is from a forwarding/alias service
  - `isTypo`: boolean (required) — Whether a potential typo was detected in the email address
  - `isPlusAddressed`: boolean (required) — Whether the email uses plus addressing (contains a + in the local part)
  - `isPersonalEmail`: boolean (required) — Whether the email is from a personal/free email provider (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc.)
  - `domainExists`: boolean (required) — Whether the domain exists in DNS (has NS records)
  - `hasWebsite`: boolean (required) — Whether the domain has a website (has DNS A or AAAA records) - informational only
  - `hasMxRecords`: boolean (required) — Whether the domain has MX records configured for email delivery
  - `suggestedEmail`: string (email) — Suggested correction if a typo was detected (optional)
  - `reasons`: array<string> (required) — Array of human-readable reasons describing the verification results

```json
{
  "success": false,
  "data": {
    "email": "user@example.com",
    "valid": false,
    "isDisposable": false,
    "isAlias": false,
    "isTypo": false,
    "isPlusAddressed": false,
    "isPersonalEmail": false,
    "domainExists": false,
    "hasWebsite": false,
    "hasMxRecords": false,
    "reasons": [
      "string"
    ]
  }
}
```

### `400` — Bad request - invalid email format

- `code`: integer
- `error`: string
- `message`: string
- `time`: integer

```json
{
  "code": 0,
  "error": "string",
  "message": "string",
  "time": 0
}
```

### `401` — Unauthorized - invalid or missing API key

- `code`: integer
- `error`: string
- `message`: string
- `time`: integer

```json
{
  "code": 0,
  "error": "string",
  "message": "string",
  "time": 0
}
```

## Example request

```bash
curl -X POST 'https://next-api.useplunk.com/v1/verify' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"email":"user@example.com"}'
```