Glossary

Email harvesting

Collecting addresses in bulk from websites and other public sources with automated programs.

ValidReach Team · Updated 2026-10-26

In practice

Harvested addresses are not addresses people gave you. CAN-SPAM treats sending to harvested addresses as an aggravating factor, and consent-based regimes give you no basis to email them. This is not legal advice.

Verification and sending

Verification does not turn harvested addresses into permitted ones. It only tells you whether they work.