# Global Email

## Overview
The Global Email Cloud API validates and parses email addresses, corrects common typographical errors, and standardizes email addresses. It also features real-time email mailbox verification which removes up to 99% of bad emails.

Global Email can be used to:

- Correct syntax errors (remove illegal characters, extra “@” characters etc.)
- Verify and correct top-level domains
- Correct common misspellings in domain names
- Update domains that have changed
- Standardize casing
- Validate emails against our database (single or batch requests)
- Perform real-time mailbox validation

**Documentation**
- [Global Email Documentation](https://docs.melissa.com/cloud-api/global-email/global-email-index.html)

**Useful Resources**
- [GitHub](https://github.com/MelissaData/MelissaCloudAPI-OpenAPI-Specifications)
- [Release Notes](https://releasenotes.melissa.com/cloud-api/global-email/)
- [Result Codes](https://docs.melissa.com/cloud-api/global-email/result-codes.html)

**Product Page**

[https://www.melissa.com/email-verification](https://www.melissa.com/email-verification)

**Support Center**

[https://www.melissa.com/company/product-support](https://www.melissa.com/company/product-support)



## Servers

Global Email Server
```
https://globalemail.melissadata.net/v4/WEB/GlobalEmail
```

## Download OpenAPI description

[Global Email](https://developer.melissa.com/_bundle/apis/global-email.yaml)

## Email Validation

Use this endpoint to verify emails.

### Validate an email address

 - [GET /doGlobalEmail](https://developer.melissa.com/apis/global-email/email-validation/doglobalemailget.md): Uses HTTP GET to accept one input record and returns the response in JSON or XML format.

### Validate email addresses

 - [POST /doGlobalEmail](https://developer.melissa.com/apis/global-email/email-validation/doglobalemailpost.md)