The MailboxValidator bulk validation service is highly capable of filtering your mailing list of invalid emails. However, this is a manual process and if people are signing up for your mailing list on a regular basis, you could potentially end up with invalid emails during the period in between bulk validations.
This will happen if you operate a WordPress blog and you have a form which collects users’ email addresses for registration or contact purposes. It is recommended to implement email validation upon submission of such forms to prevent malicious signups or even just plain old typos.
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You can easily mitigate this issue by using the MailboxValidator Email Validation plugin for WordPress. You do not need to learn any programming as it is a ready-made plugin which works within WordPress to prevent signup using free, disposable or invalid emails.
The plugin utilizes the MailboxValidator API plan which you can sign up for free with 300 validations every 30 days. Most blogs will not have that many signups on their forms each month so you should be adequately protected from bad emails. The best thing about this plugin is that it works by modifying the native is_email() function inside WordPress so any other plugins which call that function will have their email parameter validated by MailboxValidator.
The most obvious benefit is protection from spammers. WordPress is notorious for comment spam and contact form spam. If you can validate a user’s email address when they sign up or when they try to send you a message, they are less likely to abuse these features to leave spam messages advertising websites (also known as spamvertising). Often, they will use disposable email addresses or even non-existent email addresses to carry out these activities. With the MailboxValidator plugin, they will no longer be able to perform these annoying tasks.
Another common issue is typos. Some users simply do not bother checking whether they have entered the correct email address when submitting forms. Again, the plugin will block these submissions, so you won’t end up with invalid email addresses on your mailing list.
Some blogs may offer free downloads of useful resources, such as e-books, that require users to register on their websites. Often, people will sign up using disposable email addresses just to obtain the free download. As a result, you may end up with a mailing list full of unusable email addresses. A blog owner’s mailing list is a key revenue generator, and when it contains unreachable email addresses, you lose opportunities to monetize your audience. With the plugin, this is no longer an issue.
Since MailboxValidator offers a free API plan to use with the plugin, why not take advantage of this plugin to provide additional protection in between using our bulk validation service. You have all to gain and nothing to lose by deploying the MailboxValidator plugin in your WordPress blog.
