Kickbox Email Validation

Kickbox Email Validation uses the Kickbox service to check whether your members' email addresses can still receive mail. Addresses that can't are unsubscribed from site email, so you stop sending mail that bounces. Bounces hurt your site's sending reputation, and some mail services suspend senders with too many of them.

It's most useful after importing members from another site, when many old addresses no longer work.

ACP > Modules > Communication > Kickbox Email Validation

1. Create a Kickbox account and copy your API Key from the API Settings section of the Kickbox dashboard.
2. In Global Config, enter the API Key.
3. Turn on Daily Check to check existing members' addresses, and Account Check to check new addresses as they are entered.
4. Choose the Fail Action.

Kickbox charges per check after a small free allowance. See their site for prices.

• Daily Check: every hour, members whose address hasn't been checked yet are sent to Kickbox, up to Validate per Day each day.
• Account Check: when someone signs up, or changes their email in Account Settings, the address is checked at once. If it can't receive mail, they are asked for a different one.
• When an address is undeliverable, the member's email notifications are turned off. The Fail Action can also move their profile to another quota.
• In ACP > Users > User Accounts, addresses that Kickbox found undeliverable or risky are marked in the email column.

Tools > Test Email Addresses checks addresses you enter, without changing any accounts.