RadarAddress – Fake and Mistyped Email Check for Contact Form 7
A visitor writes to you, you answer, and the reply bounces: the email was mistyped, or it was a throwaway address. The message is lost and so is the contact. RadarAddress checks the email address of every submission of every Contact Form 7 form, with nothing to configure beyond the API token: an unm
A visitor writes to you, you answer, and the reply bounces: the email was mistyped, or it was a throwaway address. The message is lost and so is the contact.
RadarAddress checks the email address of every submission of every Contact Form 7 form, with nothing to configure beyond the API token: an unmistakable typo in the domain (gmial.com, hotmal.com…) is corrected and you receive the reply address that works, with the original kept; an address that cannot receive mail (a domain that does not exist, a disposable mailbox) is flagged, and refused with a message under the field only if you switch that on. The visitor who made a typo reads the corrected address in the confirmation message.
In the forms where you map the address fields (street, postcode, city, province, country: the «RadarAddress» tab in the form editor), the address completes and corrects itself while the visitor types, from the national address registers of 25 European countries, and is verified on submission: outcome and verified form arrive to you. The visitor’s fields are never rewritten and nothing ever blocks the submission.
Where the outcomes go: at the end of the notification email (Mail 1), in the mail tags [_radaraddress_email_outcome] , [_radaraddress_email_original] , [_radaraddress_outcome] , [_radaraddress_address] and [_radaraddress_reason] for whoever wants them in a precise place, and in the messages saved by Flamingo if the site uses it.
What you get
- Every email field of every form verified: syntax, domain that receives mail, disposable mailbox, role address (info@, office@…), unmistakable typo corrected.
- The corrected address wherever the email is used: notification body, Reply-To, the autoresponder, Flamingo.
- Address autocomplete and correction on the field in the mapped forms, in the countries where the national address register is in service.
- Verification of the address on submission, with the verified form and the reason.
- Verification precision from strict to maximum: how far RadarAddress goes to find an address written badly.
- Fail-open by design: if RadarAddress does not answer, the submission goes through as usual.
- Data stays in the EU. Sources: the national address registers, published as open data.
