Mailboxlayer - Check email

Important: This connector and its actions have been removed from Nintex Workflow and can now be found in Nintex Gallery.

Use the Mailboxlayer - Check email action A tool for building the processes, logic, and direction within workflows. Actions are the steps the workflow performs to complete a process. to validate an email address.

For more information about Mailboxlayer, go to Mailboxlayer.

Before you begin: 

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Configure the Mailboxlayer - Check email action

  1. Add the action to the workflow and open the action configuration panel. For more information, see Add an action to the workflow.

  1. Select a Connection. If you do not have a connection, see Add a connection.
  1. Specify the Email address that you want to validate.
  2. Create or select a variable for the output.

Mailboxlayer - Check email action fields and settings

Section Field Description Variable types

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Connection Credentials and other settings that enables workflows to communicate with external systems, services, or applications. It's required to pass data between the workflow and the indicated service, which could be a cloud service, business application, or content store.

The Mailboxlayer connection used to validate the email address.

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Email

This is the email address you want to validate.

Text, Decimal, Integer, Boolean, DateTime, Collection
  Perform SMTP check Set this to Yes to contact the email address using SMTP. This checks if the email address actually exists. The Mailboxlayer SMTP Check feature takes up around 75% of the API's entire response time. If you would like to skip SMTP and speed up the API response, you may turn it off by setting this to No. Boolean
Output Validate email address

Stores the result of the action as an object. See Mailboxlayer documentation for information on these values.

The following values are returned:

  • Email: (Text)
  • Did you mean: (Text)
  • Format valid: (Boolean)
  • MX found: (Boolean)
  • SMTP check: (Boolean)
  • Catch all: (Boolean)
  • Role: (Boolean)
  • Disposable: (Boolean)
  • Free: (Boolean)
  • Score: (Decimal)
 Object