Quickstart#

Introduction #

Welcome to the Global Email Service by Melissa. Validate and parse email addresses, correct common typographical errors, and standardize email addresses. Features real-time email mailbox verification which removes up to 95% of bad emails.

Global Email can be used to:

Correct syntax errors (remove illegal characters, extra “@” characters etc.)
Verify and correct top-level domains
Correct common misspellings in domain names
Update domains that have changed
Standardize casing
Validate emails against our database (single or batch requests)
Perform real-time mailbox validation

System Requirements #

SSL/TLS 1.2+

Getting Started - What Can I Do?#

Check an Email #

Global Email can check to see if a given email address is valid and we can even give a simplified confidence score on the deliverability of an email address.

Endpoint #

/V4/WEB/GlobalEmail/doGlobalEmail

Click here to go to the full endpoint documentation.

Try it Now #

GET JSON
POST JSON
GET XML
POST XML

curl -X GET "https://globalemail.melissadata.net/v4/WEB/GlobalEmail/doGlobalEmail?\
&t=Test\
&id={{customerId}}\
&opt=VerifyMailbox:Express,DomainCorrection:OFF,TimeToWait:25\
&format=JSON\
&email=info@melissa.com" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json"

curl -X POST "https://globalemail.melissadata.net/v4/WEB/GlobalEmail/doGlobalEmail" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-d '{
      "TransmissionReference": "test",
      "CustomerID": "{{customerId}}",
      "Options": "VerifyMailbox:Express,DomainCorrection:OFF,TimeToWait:25",
      "Records":
      [{
         "RecordID": "1",
         "Email": "info@melissa.com"
      },
      {
         "RecordID": "2",
         "Email": "sales@melissa.com"
      }]
    }
   '

curl -X GET "https://globalemail.melissadata.net/v4/WEB/GlobalEmail/doGlobalEmail?\
&t=Test\
&id={{customerId}}\
&opt=VerifyMailbox:Express,DomainCorrection:OFF,TimeToWait:25\
&email=info@melissa.com\
&format=xml" \
-H "Content-Type: application/xml" \
-H "Accept: */*"

curl -X POST "https://globalemail.melissadata.net/v4/WEB/GlobalEmail/doGlobalEmail" \
-H "Content-Type: application/xml" \
-H "Accept: */*" \
-d '<Request>
      <TransmissionReference>Test</TransmissionReference>
      <CustomerID>{{customerId}}</CustomerID>
      <Options>VerifyMailbox:Express,DomainCorrection:OFF,TimeToWait:25</Options>
      <Records>
        <RequestRecord>
          <RecordID>1</RecordID>
          <Email>info@melissa.com</Email>
        </RequestRecord>
        <RequestRecord>
          <RecordID>2</RecordID>
          <Email>sales@melissa.com</Email>
        </RequestRecord>
      </Records>
    </Request>
   '

Verify a Mailbox Delivery #

Global Email can try and verify if an email address has been delivered to a mailbox.

Endpoint #

/V4/WEB/GlobalEmail/doGlobalEmail

Click here to go to the full endpoint documentation.

Try it Now #

GET JSON
POST JSON
GET XML
POST XML

curl -X GET "https://globalemail.melissadata.net/v4/WEB/GlobalEmail/doGlobalEmail?\
&t=Test\
&id={{customerId}}\
&opt=VerifyMailbox:Premium\
&format=JSON\
&email=info@melissa.com" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json"

curl -X POST "https://globalemail.melissadata.net/v4/WEB/GlobalEmail/doGlobalEmail" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-d '{
      "TransmissionReference": "Test",
      "CustomerID": "{{customerId}}",
      "Options": "VerifyMailbox:Premium",
      "Records":
      [{
         "RecordID": "1",
         "Email": "info@melissa.com"
      },
      {
         "RecordID": "2",
         "Email": "sales@melissa.com"
      }]
    }
   '

curl -X GET "https://globalemail.melissadata.net/v4/WEB/GlobalEmail/doGlobalEmail?\
&t=Test\
&id={{customerId}}\
&opt=VerifyMailbox:Premium\
&email=info@melissa.com\
&format=xml" \
-H "Content-Type: application/xml" \
-H "Accept: */*"

curl -X POST "https://globalemail.melissadata.net/v4/WEB/GlobalEmail/doGlobalEmail" \
-H "Content-Type: application/xml" \
-H "Accept: */*" \
-d '<Request>
      <TransmissionReference>Test</TransmissionReference>
      <CustomerID>{{customerId}}</CustomerID>
      <Options>VerifyMailbox:Premium</Options>
      <Records>
        <RequestRecord>
          <RecordID>1</RecordID>
          <Email>info@melissa.com</Email>
        </RequestRecord>
        <RequestRecord>
          <RecordID>2</RecordID>
          <Email>sales@melissa.com</Email>
        </RequestRecord>
      </Records>
    </Request>
   '

Verify Only Domains #

Global Email can verify only the domain of an email address. You pass in the domain (everything after the @) and receive results about just the domain.

Endpoint #

/V4/WEB/GlobalEmail/doGlobalEmail

Click here to go to the full endpoint documentation.

Try it Now #

GET JSON
POST JSON
GET XML
POST XML

curl -X GET "https://globalemail.melissadata.net/v4/WEB/GlobalEmail/doGlobalEmail?\
&t=Test\
&id={{customerId}}\
&opt=\
&format=JSON\
&email=melissa.com" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json"

curl -X POST "https://globalemail.melissadata.net/v4/WEB/GlobalEmail/doGlobalEmail" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-d '{
      "TransmissionReference": "Test",
      "CustomerID": "{{customerId}}",
      "Options": "",
      "Records":
      [{
         "RecordID": "1",
         "Email": "melissa.com"
      },
      {
         "RecordID": "2",
         "Email": "gmail.com"
      }]
    }
   '

curl -X GET "https://globalemail.melissadata.net/v4/WEB/GlobalEmail/doGlobalEmail?\
&t=Test\
&id={{customerId}}\
&opt=\
&email=melissa.com\
&format=xml" \
-H "Content-Type: application/xml" \
-H "Accept: */*"

curl -X POST "https://globalemail.melissadata.net/v4/WEB/GlobalEmail/doGlobalEmail" \
-H "Content-Type: application/xml" \
-H "Accept: */*" \
-d '<Request>
      <TransmissionReference>Test</TransmissionReference>
      <CustomerID>{{customerId}}</CustomerID>
      <Options></Options>
      <Records>
        <RequestRecord>
          <RecordID>1</RecordID>
          <Email>melissa.com</Email>
        </RequestRecord>
        <RequestRecord>
          <RecordID>2</RecordID>
          <Email>gmail.com</Email>
        </RequestRecord>
      </Records>
    </Request>
   '

Sample Code #

Language	Repository
C# .NET	MelissaData/GlobalEmail-Dotnet
Python3	MelissaData/GlobalEmail-Python
Postman Collection	MelissaData/GlobalEmail-Postman

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