📧 Hotmail Checker & Validator

🔍 Powerful tool to validate Hotmail/Outlook/Live emails directly to Microsoft servers

Features • Installation • Usage • Documentation

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⚡ Quick Start

# Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/nulsec/Hotmail-Checker.git
cd Hotmail-Checker

# Check single email
python hotmail_checker.py email@hotmail.com

# Bulk checking
python hotmail_checker.py -f emails.txt

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✨ Features

🎯 Core Features ✅ Email format validation ✅ Check if registered with Microsoft ✅ SMTP server checking ✅ Single & Bulk checking

🌐 Supported Domains 📬 hotmail.com 📬 outlook.com 📬 live.com 📬 msn.com 📬 outlook.sg, etc.

🛡️ Advanced 🔄 Retry mechanism ⏱️ Configurable timeout 💾 Export to JSON 🚦 Rate limiting protection

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📦 Installation

Note: This script uses only standard Python libraries!

Requirements

Requirement	Version
Python	3.6+
OS	Windows / Linux / macOS

# Clone repo
git clone https://github.com/nulsec/Hotmail-Checker.git
cd Hotmail-Checker

# Ready to use! 🎉

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🚀 Usage

📝 Single Email Check

python hotmail_checker.py email@hotmail.com

📋 Bulk Checking

Create emails.txt file:

user1@hotmail.com
user2@outlook.com
user3@live.com

Run:

python hotmail_checker.py -f emails.txt

🎛️ Advanced Options

# 🏆 Microsoft Method (RECOMMENDED)
python hotmail_checker.py -f emails.txt -o results.json --method microsoft

# ⏱️ Custom timeout & delay
python hotmail_checker.py -f emails.txt --timeout 15 --delay 2

# 🚀 Fast method (format only)
python hotmail_checker.py email@hotmail.com --method format

# 📡 SMTP Method
python hotmail_checker.py email@hotmail.com --method smtp

# 🚫 Without saving results
python hotmail_checker.py -f emails.txt --no-save

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📖 Command Line Options

Option	Description	Default
email	Email for single check	-
-f, --file	Email list file	-
-o, --output	Output file (JSON)	Auto-generated
-m, --method	Method: microsoft, smtp, vrfy, format	microsoft
-t, --timeout	Timeout (seconds)	10
-d, --delay	Delay between checks (seconds)	1.0
-r, --retry	Number of retries	2
--no-save	Don't save results	False

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🔬 Checking Methods

1️⃣ Microsoft (Default - ⭐ RECOMMENDED)

Using login.microsoftonline.com API - Most Accurate!

python hotmail_checker.py email@hotmail.com --method microsoft

Advantages	Disadvantages
✅ Very accurate	⚠️ Requires 2 second delay
✅ All Microsoft domains	⚠️ Rate limiting
✅ Detects registered emails

2️⃣ Format (Fastest ⚡)

python hotmail_checker.py email@hotmail.com --method format

Only format & domain validation. No internet needed!

3️⃣ SMTP

python hotmail_checker.py email@hotmail.com --method smtp

Checking via SMTP server. Accurate but may timeout.

4️⃣ VRFY

python hotmail_checker.py email@hotmail.com --method vrfy

Uses VRFY command (usually disabled).

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📊 Output Format

[
  {
    "email": "user@hotmail.com",
    "timestamp": "2024-01-01T12:00:00",
    "valid": true,
    "message": "Email registered with Microsoft",
    "domain": "hotmail.com",
    "method": "microsoft"
  }
]

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🖥️ Output Examples

Single Check

Checking email: test@hotmail.com

📧 Email  : test@hotmail.com
🌐 Domain : hotmail.com
✅ Status : VALID
💬 Message: Email is valid and active

Bulk Check

🚀 Starting to check 3 emails...

[1/3] Checking: user1@hotmail.com... ✅ VALID
[2/3] Checking: user2@outlook.com... ❌ INVALID  
[3/3] Checking: user3@live.com... ✅ VALID

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📊 RESULTS SUMMARY
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📬 Total emails : 3
✅ Valid       : 2 (66.7%)
❌ Invalid     : 1 (33.3%)
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💾 Results saved to: results_20240101_120000.json

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⚠️ Important Notes

🔴 Legal Disclaimer: Make sure you have permission to check emails. Do not use for spam or illegal activities!

⚡ Tips	Description
🕐 Rate Limiting	Use minimum 2 second delay for microsoft method
🌐 Network	Requires stable internet connection (except format method)
🎯 Accuracy	microsoft method is most accurate for all Microsoft domains

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📜 License

MIT License - This script is provided "as is" for educational and legal validation purposes.

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Made with ❤️ by nulsec

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