About EpicMailExtractor

Our Mission

EpicMailExtractor was built with a single goal: give email marketers, developers, and data professionals a free, accurate, and privacy-respecting tool to verify and classify bulk email lists — without requiring registration, payment, or a SaaS subscription.

We believe powerful email validation tools should be accessible to everyone, from indie developers to enterprise teams. That's why EpicMailExtractor is and will remain completely free, with no artificial limits hidden behind paywalls.

How Classification Works

Unlike basic email validators that only check format or do a simple domain lookup, EpicMailExtractor performs real DNS MX record queries for every domain. This allows us to determine the actual mail hosting provider — even for custom business domains.

For example, a company using bob@acme-corp.com might be hosted on Microsoft 365. Without DNS verification, this would incorrectly be classified as "Business". With MX lookup, we detect the mail.protection.outlook.com MX record and correctly classify it as Office365.

Privacy by Design

Your email data is never stored, logged, or used for any purpose beyond the current session's DNS lookups. DNS queries are made server-side for accuracy but are not recorded. We do not set tracking cookies or share any data with third parties (except for standard advertising via Google AdSense).

Technical Details

Technology PHP 7.4+, Vanilla JavaScript, HTML5
DNS Lookup getmxrr() / dns_get_record() / checkdnsrr()
Batch Size 30 domains per DNS request batch
Max Capacity 100,000 emails per session
Export Formats TXT, CSV, JSON
Themes 10 built-in visual themes
Dependencies No external PHP libraries required
Storage Zero — no database, no logs

Community Rating

4.9
Based on 2,847 ratings · 1,204 reviews

Key Stats

100K+
Emails per session
7
Classification types
Free
Forever
Zero
Data stored