I agree, and I did read the POD carefully. My point was orthogonal to yours, not in opposition to it. (My unstated point was that verifiying the target domain, while a nice and clever feature, is not likely to be very helpful. With all the "typo-squatting" these days, it won't even catch most typos.)

My last sentence was just an acknowledgement that people use Email::Valid for different purposes, and not all of these purposes necessitate deliverability checking.
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