Hunter export to email list: accept-all leads marked, invalid set aside
In short: Reads a Hunter leads export or bulk results CSV, reads Verification status (valid, accept-all, unknown, invalid), keeps the confidence score as written, sets aside invalid and role addresses, merges repeats and flags webmail, typos and domain mismatches. Limit: Hunter doesn't publish its export column names; Verification status, Confidence score and Type are found by name from an inferred list, so check the notes above the result.
Export your Hunter leads, or download a Bulk Domain Search or Bulk Email Finder result, and upload the CSV here. The tool reads Hunter's verification status, sets aside invalid and role addresses, marks accept-all and unknown addresses as risky with the confidence score kept next to them, and merges repeats. Then check the clean file live before the first send.
Price: this tool is free. Checking a whole email list is from $9/mo, and the first 100 checks are free with Google, no card. See pricing
Sample result
6 Hunter rows: 3 leads to send, info@ and 1 invalid set aside.
- Addresses
- 3 to check
- Valid
- 1
- Set aside
- 2
What this means for you
Accept-all and unknown are kept and marked risky: check them live first.
- Verification status read
- Confidence score kept
- Generic addresses set aside
- Repeats merged
- Hunter
- Leads
- CSV
By SimpleVerifier Team · Last updated · Runs in your browser; nothing you paste is sent to us
How do I check the Hunter leads before the sequence starts?
- Download the clean list here.
- Upload it at /verify. Every address gets a live mailbox check, and valid, risky and invalid download as separate files; catch-all domains are marked. The first 100 email checks are free with a Google sign-in, no card.
- Load only the valid file into your sequencer. Keep accept-all leads in a separate, slower campaign or drop them.
How do I clean a Hunter export before cold emailing it?
- In Hunter, open Leads, pick the list, select the leads and choose Export > CSV. For bulk searches, download the results file when the job finishes.
- Upload the CSV here, or paste it. The email, name, company, domain, score and verification columns are found by name.
- Choose what to set aside: invalid and role addresses (on to start), accept-all and unknown addresses, personal webmail.
- Download the clean list and the set-aside file, each with a flags column (role, webmail, possible typo, domain differs from the company website).
Example
- You enter
- A Hunter leads CSV with 6 rows and a
Verification statuscolumn: valid, accept_all, unknown and invalid, aninfo@address marked generic, Ana twice in different case, and confidence scores from 23 to 97. - You get
- 3 leads in the list (1 valid, 2 risky for accept-all and unknown) with their scores kept, Ana merged,
info@set aside as a role address and the invalid lead set aside. - Limits
- Runs in your browser with no row cap; an uploaded file can be up to 25 MB.
What do Hunter's verification statuses mean here?
Valid is read as verified, invalid is set aside, and accept-all and unknown are read as risky. Hunter's own help says the status is what to rely on for valid and invalid, and the confidence score is mainly useful for accept-all addresses. The score is kept in the vendor_status column next to the status so you can sort by it; it isn't turned into a pass or fail here.
An accept-all domain answers yes to every address, so neither Hunter nor anyone else can prove the mailbox from the outside. A live mailbox check marks those domains, so you can decide how much of that part of the list to send.
Why set aside generic addresses?
Hunter's Type column marks generic addresses such as info@ and contact@. They're shared inboxes rather than a person, reply rates are low and complaints are higher, so they're set aside as role addresses to start. Untick the option to keep them.
Who uses this tool, and for what?
- Founders doing outbound
- Turn a Domain Search pull into a list that's safe to load into a sequencer, generic inboxes removed.
- Cold email agencies
- Split a client's Hunter export into valid and accept-all before deciding what goes into Instantly or Smartlead.
- Recruiters
- Strip invalid and generic addresses from a Bulk Email Finder file before the first outreach.
What can’t this tool tell you?
- Hunter doesn't publish its export column names; Verification status, Confidence score and Type are found by name from an inferred list, so check the notes above the result.
- It can't tell which addresses have a working inbox today, or which domains accept every address; that needs a live mailbox check.
- A list found by an email finder is cold: nobody on it asked to hear from you. The tool doesn't make it compliant; follow the rules where your recipients are.
Common questions
- Does it re-verify the addresses?
- No. It reads the status Hunter wrote into the file. To check whether each mailbox exists today, upload the clean list at /verify.
- What threshold should I use for the confidence score?
- The tool doesn't pick one. Hunter's FAQ suggests considering a filter below 85% for accept-all addresses; the score is kept so you can sort the file yourself.
- Is my lead list uploaded?
- No. The file is read in your browser. Nothing is sent unless you choose to check the addresses afterwards.
Sources
A tidy list can still be full of dead addresses.
Extracting, deduplicating and syntax checks all work on the text of an address. None of them can tell whether the mailbox exists. Only the server that hosts it can answer that, through an SMTP check, and that is what the paid product does.
- Upload the cleaned file as it is: CSVs up to 100,000 rows
- A real SMTP mailbox check on every row, with catch-all detection
- Small list? Starter at $9/mo covers 2,500 emails a month, cancel anytime
Plans from $9 a month, cancel anytime, no contract. Sign in with Google and your first 100 email checks are free, no card. The free tools stay free either way.