Understand what the results you receive from the ASSESS API services mean
The table explains the results received from the ASSESS API service:
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Hippo Trust Score |
How much can I trust the user? Typically scores less than 3 should be blocked, 7 or higher admitted and the remainder reviewed. (Score ranges should depend on use cases.) |
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Gibberish and profanity status |
Is there gibberish text? Is there profanity? |
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Gender |
The gender been identified from the first name or email address. |
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Email address verification result |
Primary result codes of OK, Bad, Unverifiable, Disposable email address. |
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Role and subaddressing status |
Is a role address? e.g. info@, sales@, postmaster@ Does the email contain subaddressing i.e. + some text? |
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Mail server location and infrastructure |
Is email address a free mail provider? e.g. gmail, hotmail etc Is the mail server a catch all mail server? Infrastructure identifier e.g. Hotmail, GoogleforBiz, Office365, Mimecast. Mail server location as a two digit ISO code e.g. US. |
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Consumer Business assessment |
Does the email address belong to a consumer or a business? The closer the score is to 0 the more likely the email address belongs to a consumer, the closer it is to 10 the more likely it is to belong to a business. |
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Blocked |
Is there a presence on a reputable block list? |
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Dark Web status |
Is there an association with the Dark Web? |
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Domain status |
Does the domain have any DNS records? Does the domain have any MX records? |
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Domain age |
Age of the domain. |
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Domain registration |
City and country of registration. |
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IP location |
Coordinates, city, country. |
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Connection type |
The connection type e.g. Corporate, Residential. |
The table explains the email address verification results in more detail:
| Main Response Codes | Additional Status Codes | Explanation |
| Ok | Success | A valid email address |
| Bad | DomainDoesNotExist | The domain of the email address does not exist. |
| EmailAddressFoundOnBlockLists | The email address is found on one or more block lists. | |
| EmailContainsInternationalCharacters | Email address contains international characters. | |
| InvalidEmailFormat | Invalid email address format. | |
| MailboxDoesNotExist | The mailbox does not exist. | |
| MailboxFull | Mailboxes that are full are unable to receive any further email messages until such time as the user empties the mail box or the system administrator grants extra storage quota. | |
| MailServerFaultDetected | An unspecified mail server fault was detected. | |
| NoMailServersForDomain | There are no mail servers defined for this domain, according to DNS. | |
| Possible spam trap detected | A possible spam trap email address or domain has been detected. | |
| Disposable email address | DomainIsWellKnownDea | The domain is a well known Disposable Email Address |
| Unverifiable | MailServerAntiSpam | The email server is using anti-spam measures. |
| MailServerGreyListing | The email server is employing greylisting. For more information, visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/greylisting | |
| MailServerCatchAll | The server accepts any email address as long as the domain is correct. | |
| None | No additional information is available. | |
| Timeout | The remote email server timed out. Mail server is too busy / overloaded, misconfigured, offline or otherwise unavailable. | |
| UnpredictableSystem | Unpredictable system infrastructure detected. Various email services deliver unpredictable results to email address verification. |