Freaking awesome. Good results on the few tests I've run -- would love to know how it works under the hood. Is it running through some databases, automatically validating existence w/in a pre-defined set of known patterns, etc.
Regardless, this is sweet.
Jack Smith@_jacksmith · Serial Entrepreneur & Startup Adviser
@comptly It's likely generating the most common permutations of first name/last name, then checking the domain's mailserver to see if an email address is showing indications of activity for that variation. see: https://www.distilled.net/blog/m...
also similar: http://www.emailfinder.io/
@_jacksmith@comptly
There are three main ways to validate an email address:
- ping the email address (which is what this script seems to be doing)
- check whois records
- use a wrapper for the Rapportive API (https://gist.github.com/nealrs/9...)
Doesn't look like Norbert is checking for catchall addresses, which is pretty easy to do. If xXx@target.domai…See more
@nealrs@_jacksmith@comptly@target The next implementation will do a check of a catch-all address, amongst many other things, and will be online pretty soon ;)
