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checkmails Verify API

The Verify API from checkmails — 1 operation(s) for verify.

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POST /api/v1/verify Verify a single email synchronously #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Checkmails Eu Verify API
  version: 1.0.0
  contact:
    name: checkmails support
    url: https://checkmails.eu
  description: 'Operations tagged Verify across 2 of this provider''s published API definitions: checkmails-eu-openapi.json, checkmails-eu-openapi.yml. Each path carries the servers of the definition it was published in.'
servers:
- url: https://checkmails.eu
  description: Production
security:
- BearerAuth: []
tags:
- name: Verify
paths:
  /api/v1/verify:
    post:
      summary: Verify a single email synchronously
      description: 'Returns an enriched Result, blocking until the SMTP probe completes. Costs 1 credit, refunded when the verdict is indeterminate. Free when the domain is a sure typo of a known provider (gmial.com, hotnail.com, gmail.ma…): no probe, verdict invalid, reason faute_de_frappe_probable, flag typo_suspected, and suggestion filled.'
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                email:
                  type: string
                  format: email
              required:
              - email
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Verification result
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Result'
        '400':
          description: Invalid email or body
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '401':
          description: Missing or invalid API key
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '402':
          description: Insufficient credits
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '429':
          description: Rate limit exceeded (60/min/api-key)
      tags:
      - Verify
      operationId: postApiV1Verify
      x-operation-id-source: derived
    servers:
    - url: https://checkmails.eu
      description: Production
components:
  schemas:
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        error:
          type: string
          description: Machine-readable error code
        message:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable explanation
        suggestion:
          type: string
          format: email
          description: 'On 400 invalid_email only: the address the person probably meant ("ali@gmail.com." → "ali@gmail.com"), when there is one.'
      required:
      - error
      - message
    Result:
      type: object
      properties:
        email:
          type: string
          format: email
        valid:
          type: boolean
          description: true ssi verdict == 'valid' (champ conservé pour compatibilité, lire verdict pour 3 états)
        verdict:
          type: string
          enum:
          - valid
          - invalid
          - indeterminate
          description: Verdict canonique à 3 états. 'indeterminate' signifie qu'aucune réponse définitive n'a pu être obtenue (4xx persistant, 421, greylist, proxy indisponible, DNS qui ne répond pas — reason dns_indisponible…). Ne PAS envoyer en froid sur 'indeterminate'.
        blocked:
          type: boolean
        reason:
          type: string
        mx_host:
          type: string
        smtp_code:
          type: integer
        flags:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        risk_score:
          type: integer
          minimum: 0
          maximum: 100
        suggestion:
          type: string
          format: email
          description: 'Adresse que la personne voulait probablement taper (faute de frappe sur un fournisseur connu : gmial.com, hotmail.ma, gmail.fr…, ou structure réparée : virgule pour un point, point final). Absent s''il n''y a rien à proposer, et jamais présent sur une adresse ''valid''. Jamais appliquée par l''API : c''est au formulaire de la proposer. Renvoyé par POST /api/v1/verify uniquement. Quand la faute est sûre et que le domaine tapé ne peut pas recevoir de courrier (inexistant, sans MX, MX de parking, squat connu, gmail.*), le domaine n''est pas sondé : verdict ''invalid'', reason ''faute_de_frappe_probable'', flag ''typo_suspected'', aucun crédit débité.'
      required:
      - email
      - valid
      - reason
  securitySchemes:
    BearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: chk_<32hex>
externalDocs:
  description: Docs & MCP
  url: https://checkmails.eu/docs
x-refined-from:
- checkmails-eu-openapi.json
- checkmails-eu-openapi.yml