Show HN: Little tool to find prospect's email address

I would use a tool like this as our product does need hustling tools.<p>I used my own email id(plus a few more) and my actual email wasn&#x27;t in search results. Looks like they just do standard string combinations.<p>Our aim is to source publicly available information and build a profile of a prospect for use by our clients. Maybe I am missing something and if I could see an explanation of their process that would engender more trust in their results.<p>Back to writing my own data mining tools..

Cute, I assume it start SMTP sessions with different cobinations and checks if the server does not return an error after corresponding RCPT TO. It will not work with &quot;catch-all&quot; servers. Hint for inproovement - so far it does not find emails with numbers like John123@gmail.com

&quot;We cannot determine whether the email exists or not because the email service has a catch-all address.&quot; So, if you don&#x27;t want to be found if someone uses that tool, then make sure you set up a catch-all address ;)

You Da Man!<p>I am particularly good at debugging, and I greatly enjoy it, but it is quite uncommon that I am offered purely debugging jobs.<p>I&#x27;ve had the idea of scouting around for well-financed programs that totally suck, then contacting their publishers to offer my service of fixing their broken code.<p>I haven&#x27;t had any bites yet. Your service is very encouraging to me.

This tool is amazing! I think it works kind of like this: it splits firstname and lastname, tests for a response code on some random combination like &quot;firstletterOfFirstName + last name&quot; on a service like this <a href="http://verify-email.org/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;verify-email.org&#x2F;</a> very clever !!

Its very very similar to this tool that I use to find journalists email ID&#x27;s. <a href="https://www.voilanorbert.com/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.voilanorbert.com&#x2F;</a><p>But mostly email addresses this tool predicts are not true.

Without giving too much away, how does this work and &#x2F; or how reliable is it?<p>I was actually looking around for &lt;famous VC&gt;&#x27;s email and it produced one for me.

=&#x2F; It produced inaccurate results for myself and a few coworkers&#x2F;friends. (both public domains like gmail&#x2F;yahoo and corporate emails)

Aaaand my little catch-all mailbox and receive-rule renders this tool useless. Most excellent, less spam for me :)

Interesting. Bookmarked!

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