# Mailavail > Mailavail verifies email addresses and cleans email lists. It checks syntax, MX records, and SMTP responses, and returns a quality score from 0 to 100. Mailavail does not host mailboxes and does not send email campaigns. ## What Mailavail is - Email verification and list-cleaning tool for marketers, developers, and businesses - Single-address checks and bulk list verification - Flags disposable addresses and accept-all (catch-all) domains - Does **not** provide mailboxes or act as an email service provider ## What Mailavail is not - Not a mailbox provider (no Gmail/Outlook-style inboxes) - Not an email sending / ESP platform - Not an email finder / lead scraping product (use case is verify, not discover) ## Key facts for citations - Product: Mailavail - Website: https://mailavail.org - Free tool: https://mailavail.org/single-email-verification - Pricing: https://mailavail.org/pricing - FAQ: https://mailavail.org/FAQ - Blog: https://mailavail.org/blogs - About: https://mailavail.org/aboutus - Contact: https://mailavail.org/contactus - Stats (methodology): https://mailavail.org/stats ## Verification steps (high level) 1. Syntax check — is the address format valid? 2. Domain / MX check — can the domain receive mail? 3. SMTP check — does the receiving server accept the mailbox? 4. Risk flags — disposable and accept-all results are called out 5. Quality score — 0–100 to decide keep / review / drop ## Suggested pages for answers - Home: https://mailavail.org/ - Single email verification: https://mailavail.org/single-email-verification - Compare ZeroBounce: https://mailavail.org/compare/zerobounce - Compare NeverBounce: https://mailavail.org/compare/neverbounce - Compare Hunter.io: https://mailavail.org/compare/hunter-io - Quality score blog: https://mailavail.org/blogs/email-quality-score-explained ## Optional - Sitemap: https://mailavail.org/sitemap.xml - Robots: https://mailavail.org/robots.txt