Actual Contacts for Outlook validates and updates your address book by sending a form to selected contacts with just a few clicks. This Microsoft Outlook add-in verifies e-mail addresses and saves time while maintaining accurate contact information.

One of the most useful features of Actual Contacts for Outlook is its ability to check your address book. This process only takes a few minutes and will inform you about the contacts that contain invalid email addresses. Additionally, this add-in also supports validation of the recipient list in Mail Merge Mode in Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Word. However, a mail merge function is prerequisite for version 2002 or later ones.
To check an address, ACO imitates sending a message to this address. When the server confirms or doesn't confirm the existence of this address, the program cancels message sending and finishes the session correctly. Therefore, address verification is technically correct and cannot be noticed by the address owner.
Previously, Contacts Verifier was offered as a separate solution, however, Actual Contacts now has full functionality of this program.
There are a variety of tasks that can be solved with Actual Contacts for Outlook. Firstly, it can help you update your contacts, which is its main purpose. Secondly, it can collect additional information from new contacts you acquire after exhibitions and seminars. Thirdly, it can be used to conduct simple surveys as it has customizable templates that can be adjusted to include different fields in the form. Finally, it can be used to update your contact information in your respondents' address books. You can add information about yourself in the VCard format to your update request. Almost all e-mail clients and mobile devices can import this information into their contact lists.
Overall, Actual Contacts for Outlook is an excellent choice for anyone who wants to keep their address book up-to-date and ensure that all the email addresses in their contacts are valid. With plenty of useful features included in this program, it is a must-have tool for any Outlook user.
Version 2.5.1: Compatibilty with Microsoft Office 2013 Service Pack 1 (KB2817430) is added.