Antideo Email Validator
Antideo Email Validator
Description
The email validator is designed by Antideo to help combat spam coming in through contact forms. Antideo validates email addresses entered through your contact forms in real time to prevent inquiries from fake email addresses. The email validator plugin comes packed with several features that help you –
- Check the syntax of the email entered, to quickly flag the error to the visitor
- Check for disposable or temporary emails
- Prevent inquiries from free ESP’s like Gmail, Yahoo, etc (Can be switched on and off)
- Prevent inquiries from role-based emails like info@, support@, admin@ etc (Can be switched on and off)
- Check MX records to identify invalid emails
- Create and maintain your own local whitelist of domains and emails
- Create and maintain your own local blacklist of domains and emails
Armed with the capabilities of our plugin you would be able to eliminate a major portion of contact form spam, as spammers seldom use a valid business email address. Our plugin out of the box is compatible with major forms like
- Contact Form 7
- Gravity Forms
- Mailster Form
- WooCommerce
- MailChimp
- Ninja Forms
- Formidable forms
- JetPack comments and a contact form
- MailPoet
- WP-Members
- Paid Membership Pro
- Form Maker by 10Web
- Visual Form Builder
And pretty much any other form that uses the default WordPress is_email() function. The plugin is very easy to install and activate, no tech knowledge whatsoever is needed to get going with the plugin.
Advantages of our plugin
- No limits on the number of validations – go crazy, it’s unlimited!!
- Real time validations done in a fraction of a second
- Extensive database of 84K+ disposable email domains and constantly being updated with newer ones
- Clean and super friendly UI that is easy to use
- A powerful free version and an affordable premium version
We are literally eating our own dog food, implementing the Antideo Email Validation plugin on several websites that we own, which has resulted in spam inquiries going down by over 87%.
You can access more information on the plugin as well as the several aspects of email validation here.
Disclaimer: This plugin is an email validator and not an email verifier
Screenshots
Settings page
Dashboard
About us page
FAQ page
Free vs Premium page
Faq
The static list consists of a fixed set of disposable email vendors while the dynamic list gets updated with new vendors as a when they are discovered
The free version does provide the essential features needed to prevent fake sign-ups, but the validation is based on a static list of disposable email vendors. New disposable email vendors pop up frequently and the existing vendors come up with new domains too. So with the premium email validation plugin you can ensure your list stays updated and you have better levels of protection
The plugin works out of the box with the major forms out there, and you donot need to be tech savvy at all to setup the plugin. Once you install and activate the plugin from the plugin store, you would be presented check boxes to select your preferences. That’s it, you are all set..
Nope, it’s a $2/month flat fee for email validation without any restriction on the number of queries that can be made. Please do-not confuse this with email verification, our service uses a combination of methods to ascertain the validity of the emails but does-not do the end-point verification if the email exists. A full fledged email verification system is in the works and we expect to release the functionality in the near future
Apart from the plugin we have a well functioning API service that can be integrated in to any website or a form. Have a look at our Email Validation API at https://www.antideo.com/email-validation/
We have built mechanisms to validate the email addresses within the plugin itself without a need for the email address to be sent out to our database, so in short we never access your prospect’s/customer’s email address. You do however have an option to build your own blacklist within the plugin, which is passed on to us to alert our users of the scammer/spammers. This crowdsourced list would help us provide better security to our users
Reviews
Must have email validator for marketers
By 
As a seasoned digital marketer, I have always been troubled by spam. Antideo really solved that problem and saves a tremendous amount of time and also prevents hard bounces. This helps me to capture quality leads and without negatively affecting domain authority.
I have been using this on all of the WordPress websites of my clients
By 
The Antideo plugin is a must have for me since I discovered it a couple of years ago. It would have been great if the plugin had an 'Only Allow' feature as well for allowing enquiries just from a list of whitelabelled domains. The support team also has been great responding to my inquires and being accomodative of my requests.
This is a useful plugin
By 
Antideo is so easy to setup and use, I am using it on my websites and will be recommending and adding to my client websites too
Zero Support
By 
After creating an account on their website, and subscribing monthly, I am unable to login to my account on their website. I have yet to get the premium Key to work on my installation. I have sent them 5 different emails through their terrible website to get access to my account. They are now ignoring me.
Not Functioning
By 
It allows ALL types of typos such as gmail.coom etc.
false positives
By 
This plugin gives an error for many email addresses which are correct and valid.
The plugin checks the DNS-A record. If this is not present, the domain is considered invalid. Correctly the plugin should check the E-Mail DNS (MX) record. The error also occurs in the paid premium version!
Support still gives no answer after 20 days.
Effective Email Validator with Room for Backend Improvements
By 
The Antideo Email Validator plugin provides a robust solution for ensuring email accuracy, effectively catching common typos like "hotmail.co-uk," "hmail.com," "hotmail.co," and "hotmail.con." However, there are areas in the backend that require attention and enhancement. Notably, the "Invalid Mx Record counter" is non-functional, the email log lacks time stamps, and there is no "bin" button to facilitate log deletion. Additionally, it's observed that emails can be blocked even when the host is invalid but the Mx Record is valid. Considering that not all email hosts have associated websites, it would be beneficial for the premium version to introduce a workflow, perhaps something along the lines of: Verify Host -> If No, Check Mx Record -> If Valid, Allow. This would streamline the email validation process and enhance user experience.
Where is the function?
By 
Sorry, is that a 2 dollar strategy? This plugin shows no effekt :,( Has somebody from Wordress check it before publishing?
Finally allows valid emails. Also invalid emails.
By 
This plugin doesn't seem to do anything useful. At least with the latest update, it no longer does anything damaging....
Simple and effective
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Changelog
= V1.0 – 01.09.2020
First version
= V1.0.1 – 12.10.2020
Bug fixes
= V1.0.2 – 13.03.2021
Minor bug fixes
= V1.0.3 – 13.04.2021
Bug fixes
= V1.0.4 – 16.01.2023
Bug fixes
= V1.0.5 – 15.02.2023
Bug fixes
= V1.0.6 – 23.05.2023
Bug fixes
= V1.0.7 – 28.05.2023
Bug fixes
= V1.0.8 – 30.05.2023
Bug fixess
= V1.0.9 – 24.11.2023
Bug fixes
= V1.0.10 – 15.04.2024
Fixed issue with MX checks