Email guides
Short how-to guides on verifying addresses, keeping lists clean and writing emails people answer.
- How to verify an email address
Three ways to verify an email address with ValidReach: one address, a file, or the API, and what to do with each result.
- How to check if an email address exists
What you can and cannot learn about an address without sending to it: syntax, domain, and a mailbox check, and why some answers stay unknown.
- How to check if an email address is active
Whether anyone uses an address is not directly visible. Combine a verification result with engagement signals to decide who is worth keeping.
- How to confirm an email address
Confirming means proving that the person owns the mailbox. Use a confirmation link, and verify the address first so the message has somewhere to go.
- How to tell if an email is fake
Two different problems share this question: an address that does not really exist, and a message that is not from who it claims. Here are the checks for each.
- How to find someone’s email address
Honest ways to find a business email address, and the step that turns a guess into something you can send to.
- How to reduce your email bounce rate
A short plan to cut hard bounces: verify the list, collect addresses carefully, suppress bounces and watch the numbers.
- Email marketing best practices
A checklist for sending email people want and that reaches them: list, consent, authentication, content, cadence and measurement.
- How to email a hiring manager
A short, specific message that gets read: who to write to, what the subject says, what to put in three short paragraphs and when to follow up.
- How to write a job application email
What to put in an application email, with a sample: the subject, a short opening, your match to the role and a clear close.
- How to end an email
Closings that fit the situation, from formal to friendly, and what to put before them so the reader knows what to do next.
- “I hope this email finds you well”: when to use it and what to write instead
The phrase is polite and overused. Know when it works and swap in something specific when it does not.