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What do email marketers actually mean when they refer to email verification? One marketer’s validation is another one’s verification. The two terms are often used interchangeably, which isn’t correct, as they both have different meanings. However, that’s not all bad news. Developers and QAs also mea..

Want better deliverability rates? Try verifying the email addresses on your contact list! 

For that, you’ll need the help of email verification tools.  

I took it upon myself to give 6 of them a test drive and, with that, help you pick one from the many available options. 

So, if you’re looking for reviews and comparisons between some of the leading email verification solutions (which also double as email validation tools 🙌🏻), keep on reading!

When a new user clicks on the Sign up button of an app, he or she usually gets a confirmation email with an activation link (see examples here). This is needed to make sure that the user owns the email address entered during the sign-up. After the click on the activation link, the user is authenticated for the app.

From the user’s standpoint, the email verification process is quite simple. From the developer’s perspective, things are much trickier unless your app is built with Laravel. Those who use Laravel 5.7+ have the user email verification available out-of-the-box. For earlier releases of the framework, you can use a dedicated package to add email verification to your project. In this article, we’ll touch upon each solution you can choose.