Friday, 13 June 2014
How to check whether an email address exists?
Have you ever tried to find out whether an email address exists or not? There are times, when you're not sure about an email address, if its valid or not. In that case you send an email to that address and get your email bounced back after few hours. Isn't it a time consuming process to check the existence of an email address. Yes it is.
So today I have brought you two simple ways to check whether an email address exists or not, in seconds.
In this tutorial, I have used my Google or Gmail account to check any email address's existence.
Trick 1 : Check using your own Email address
This is the simplest trick to check the existence of an email. The only thing you need to do is, pretend that you've forgot your password.
Step 1.
Open the Gmail sign in window.
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Step 2.
Select or type your email address but not your password. Then, click on Need Help? option below password.
Step 3.
In the following window, select I don't know my password.
Step 4.
There it'll ask for an email address whose password you've forgotten. Your email would be already typed in there. Replace your email address with the email address you want to check existence for. If it's correct there'll not be any problem and you'll proceed further, but if it's not, you'll see an error saying that 'No account found with that email address.'
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So, by this you can simply check whether an email address exists or not.
Trick 2 : Check by creating a new account
This is an alternative to the previous trick but yet equally effective. It has a limit that it will work only for Google email service (Gmail).
Simply create a new account and type that email address in the username field (excluding @gmail.com). Google will let you know whether that username is available or not.
So these are the simple tricks to check the existence of an email address. Did you think it is that easy?? I guess no.
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