# Easy and effective email validation

Protect your sending reputation and improve deliverability by validating email addresses before you send. Stop bounces before they impact your revenue.

## Validation that doesn't put your reputation at risk.

Older tools verify an address by pinging the recipient's mail server. Mailbox providers now treat that like a spammer probing for valid addresses, so it gets you rate-limited or blocklisted, and the answers are unreliable anyway. Bird checks each address against real delivery and engagement history instead, so you learn whether an address actually receives mail without ever touching the provider or risking your reputation.

## What your validation results tell you.

Every address comes back in one of five buckets, so you know exactly what to do with it.

## Where validation fits in your workflow.

Validate in real time on a signup form to catch typos and block disposable addresses before they reach your database. Validate a whole list before a campaign to strip invalid and risky addresses and keep your bounce rate down. And re-check older lists now and then, since addresses that were fine at signup go stale as mailboxes close.

## The platform it works alongside.

Recipient Validation keeps your lists clean for whatever you send. The hosted Bird Email API handles the sending, with deliverability, suppression, and analytics built in.