How to Test an Email Address

Test Your Email Address in Minutes

An email account holder might want to test his email address if he has been told by a friend or colleague, for example, that a recently sent email was never received. He may also want to test his email address to see if a signature line, for example, is working or to check the overall layout of his email messages.

Instructions

1. Verify the email address without sending an email. Go to LookUpEmailAddresses.com and click on the "Reverse Email" tab. Enter the email address and then click the "Search for Email Addresses" button.

2. Review the search results provided. The email will display with a "Verified" or "Not Verified" result. The Internet Provider address for the email address will also appear on screen. Any email address listed as "Verified" is active and ready for use. Any email address listed as "Not Verified" is not active or registered with a web server. A web server is a company that provides access to the Internet, such as Roadrunner, Yahoo! or Google.

3. Send an email to [e-mail]. The email address is run by the Technical University of Berlin in Germany; the TU Berlin Echo Processor is free to the public. Any email sent to [e-mail] will bounce back to its original source.
   Log in to your email account. Click "New," "Compose" or "New Email," depending on the option provided. Type the email address in the "To:" box. Click "Send." Wait for the email to bounce back (this should take minutes, if not seconds). Once received, you can be certain the email address is valid.

4. Send an email to yourself. If the email address is not valid, you will receive a notice indicating that the email message was not successfully sent. For example, sending a message from an invalid Yahoo! email account would result in a "[e-mail]" email with the original message attached and a note stating that the message was "undeliverable."

Tips & Warnings

• Check your email address to make sure the account has not been deleted.

• Always check that an email account is active before sending an email.

References

• Look Up Email Addresses
• List of operational and defunct servers for e-mail only users