This section contains changes to the Experian Email Validation v2 API, as well as a link to documentation for an older email validation API.
Enhancements
Gmail domain: Improvements to the way we classify certain responses from Gmail to reduce unknowns and provide valuable insight into a users mailbox
Role accounts: Expanding the list role accounts that are classified by the API
Enhancements
Yahoo domain validation: Improvements to the way we validate emails from Yahoo domains, increasing our throughput, and reducing unknowns across the platform.
Bug Fixes
Fixed cache issue showing different responses for the same email address, where the capitalisation differed.
Enhancements
Database update: PostgreSQL has been added.
Enhancements
Improved RealTime reporting
Enhancements
Apple domain improvements to validate via SMTP.
Bug Fixes
Incorrect DNS lookup bug resolved, remove false negatives on domains such as coralshoreuk.com.
New features
Visualize in Kibana if the email address contains non-ASCII characters.
Protection Outlook new logic is in place and the new Microsoft API is used.
Enhancements
Protection Outlook domains classifications improvements
Apple domains classifications improvements
Spring boot version upgraded to the latest 2.6.3 version.
h2database library upgrade to version 2.1.210
log4j library upgrade to the most secure version 2.17.1
Common library version upgraded to version 8.3.36
New features
RealTime internationalized emails
Validate email addresses from domains that support the use of international characters (e.g. á, é or ø).
New verbose_output "internationalCharactersUnsupported"
Bug Fixes
Fix bug related to the role accounts - All role accounts (technical and non-technical) should be returned as "illegitimate -> roleAccount"
Security fix and internal libraries are upgraded to latest version
New features
New functionality added related to the domain's type - Consumer or Business
Change of label for suggestions from "corrections" to "did_you_mean"
Enhancements
Security improvements by changing GET request to POST
Improved Response Error Details
Timeout parameter - moved to the headers
Transaction-Id and Reference-Id are returned in the headers
New "metadata" section in the response
Looking for documentation on an older related product or API? Check out Email Validation v1.
