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    reacherhq/check-if-email-exists

    Check if an email address exists without sending any email, written in Rust. Comes with a ⚙️ HTTP backend.

    10.4K stars
    779 forks
    58 GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 7, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 8 days ago, with 32 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #5 in the weekly ranking the week of Dec 14, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Check if an email address exists without sending any email using Rust with an optional HTTP backend.
    • Provides comprehensive email validation including syntax, DNS, SMTP, and mailbox status without spamming the address.
    • Use for integrating email verification in Rust applications to ensure valid and reachable email addresses before sending emails.
    • Use for running a self-hosted HTTP backend via Docker to provide email validation as a service in your infrastructure.
    • Use for CLI-based email verification directly from your computer without relying on external services or APIs.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    MIT

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

    Community files

    • README: present

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    From the README

    Check if an email address exists without sending any email. Comes with a ⚙️ HTTP backend.

    This is open-source, but I also offer a SaaS solution that has check-if-email-exists packaged in a nice friendly web interface. If you are interested, find out more at Reacher. If you have any questions, you can contact me at [email protected].

    3 non-SaaS ways to get started with check-if-email-exists.

    Excerpt from the reacherhq/check-if-email-exists README on GitHub (MIT license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Aug 11: +6Aug 12: +6Aug 13: +2Sep 13: +77Sep 14: +55Sep 15: +53Sep 16: +11Sep 17: +7Sep 18: -32Sep 19: +2Sep 24: +8Sep 25: +38Sep 26: +11Sep 27: +5Sep 28: +14

    +1,001 stars over 90 days across 22 snapshot days; best day +77 on Sep 13.

    Forks

    779+98

    Open issues

    60-28

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