Ruby wrapper for mailboxlayer of apilayer. See mailboxlayer.com/ and apilayer.com for more details.

Connect to mailboxlayer.com to verify email addresses. Mailboxlayer verifies the existence of email-addresses by first checking MX-records (to see whether the specified domain is configured to receive emails), then by contacting the corresponding email server through SMTP, to see whether the provided email exists.

While the mailboxlayer gem focuses on the functionalities offered by mailboxlayer, it depends on the apilayer gem to configure and create connections to apilayer.net

Add apilayer in your Gemfile:

gem "mailboxlayer"

Run the following in your console:

$ bundle install

require "mailboxlayer"

Once you have signed up for mailboxlayer.com, you will receive an access_key. Then configure your Apilayer::Mailbox module like this:

Apilayer::Mailbox.configure do |configs|
  configs.access_key = "my_access_key_123"
  configs.https = true
end

Please note that the https configuration is optional and only available to paid-accounts. If unset, these configuration-values are just nil.

You can always review you configurations with:

Apilayer::Mailbox.configs

Once your configurations are set, you are ready to go

After setting the access_key for mailboxlayer, you can use Apilayer::Mailbox to call mailboxlayer’s API

Apilayer::Mailbox.check("support@apilayer.com")

If you happened to have forgotten to set or entered an incorrect value, you can re-configure your Apilayer module by:

# Example: reconfigure https
Apilayer::Mailbox.configure do |configs|
  configs.https = true
end