Disposable Email Address Detector

Detects disposable email addresses "DEA", also known as trash email addresses such as "[email protected]".

Detects thousands of known dea domains.

It classifies those as disposable which operate as a time-limited, web based way of receiving emails, for example, sign up confirmations.

Essentially every email address may be of temporary use. Even freemail providers like yahoo and gmail offer [temporary] aliases. However, those are personal and may be in use for a longer period of time, and can often not be detected as such.

   

A syntactically valid email address.
An invalid input exception is thrown if the address does not look like an email address.

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YES

The email address is known to be disposable.

NO

The email address is known to be not disposable.
This value is returned when the user/domain combination is known to be of another type, for example freemail or a business.

UNKNOWN

The domain has not been classified yet.
This value is returned for many domains, and in almost all cases it means that the address is not disposable.