mxsniff 0.3.3

MX Sniffer

MX Sniff

MX Sniff identifies well known email service providers given an email address or a domain name. Use this to find out how many users in your email database are Gmail users (via Google Apps).

To install, get it from PyPI:

$ pip install mxsniff

Or get the development branch direct from GitHub:

$ pip install https://github.com/jace/mxsniff/archive/master.zip

Command line usage:

$ mxsniff example.com gmail.com [e-mail] https://www.google.com
$ mxsniff -v example.com
$ mxsniff @filename_with_list_of_domains_or_emails_or_urls
$ mxsniff [e-mail] -p [e-mail]

Python usage:

>>> from mxsniff import mxsniff, mxbulksniff
>>> mxsniff('google.com')
>>> mxbulksniff(['example.com', 'google.com'])  # Returns a generator with one result at a time

0.3.3

• mxprobe now distinguishes between soft and hard fails

• mxsniff command line now produces valid CSV or JSON (verbose mode)

• Verbose output now includes canonical representation of an email address to facilitate comparison

0.3.2

• Fix PyPI distribution (no code changes)

0.3.1

• The providers list now includes provider metadata (title, note, url)

• Public email domains are now tagged and identified in results

• A static domain list is included for very popular domains (typically public email domains)

• The command line script now handles IDN names correctly

• Email probe feature, to attempt a guess on whether the email is actually valid

0.3.0

• Added support for wildcards in domain names

• Additional providers

• Detect self-hosted email servers

• Remove verbose mode in the mxsniff function; always verbose now

• Track MX TLDs

• Run queries in a multiprocess pool in the command line version

0.2.1

• Updated README and minor bugfixes

0.2.0

• Python 3 and PyPy support

• mxsniff now returns a string or None, switching to a list only when multiple service providers are found

• get_domain now extracts the TLD when a URL is provided, so www. and other subdomains are ignored

• New mxbulksniff to run on a large list

• Verbose mode to also retrieve MX values

• New console script for easy use and batch processing of large lists

• More providers

0.1.0

• First version