With help from our great team of Beta Testers, we are now approaching our design goals of delivering 85-90% accuracy* on email validations.
*Average figures based on those email that can be checked remotely.
In the last 48 hours hours, we’ve been tinkering with DNS settings as well as working out what settings for time out settings deliver the best average results.
Time out settings determine how long our service waits for a remote mail server to return the answer to our query “does this email address exist?”. A time out of too long slows the overall validation process whereas a setting of too short runs the increased risk of missing results from mail servers that do not respond within the set time out.
Getting the best settings is a balancing act between performance and accuracy. With a lot of analysis, we arrived at some numbers that work well in in this application.
If you have used desktop based email checkers before, you would have configured your own time out settings. With our service, you don’t have to as we’ve done it for you. Yet another example of the benefits of doing email validation on a hosted platform rather than your desktop!
