How to find someone's work email address

6 min read · Updated 23 October 2026

You have a name and a company, and you need the person's work email. Guessing and hoping is how emails bounce. Here are five ways that work, from fastest to slowest, and how to make sure the address is real before you hit send.

1. Use an email finder

The quickest way is an email finder. You enter the person's full name and the company website, and the tool works out the most likely address and checks it with the company's mail server.

With Domailfix, open the Find email tab, type the name (for example Priya Sharma) and the website (example.com), and click Find email. You get either a confirmed address or a likely match that is clearly marked as an estimate. If nothing is found, you are not charged.

Use the company's real website, not a LinkedIn or Facebook page. The email domain almost always matches the main website.

2. Work it out from the company's email format

Most companies write every staff address the same way. The most common formats are:

• first.last@company.com, for example jane.doe@company.com
• flast@company.com, for example jdoe@company.com
• first@company.com, for example jane@company.com
• firstl@company.com and first_last@company.com, less often

If you know one real address at the company, you know the format for everyone else. You can also look the format up with the free company email format finder, which shows the formats a company uses and how often each one appears.

Once you have a guess, always verify it (step 5). People use nicknames, middle names and initials, and two people with the same name may get first.last2.

3. Check the company website

Many companies list staff emails on their own site. Look at:

• the Contact, Team, About us and Leadership pages
• press releases and media pages, which often name a press contact
• blog author pages and event pages
• the footer and the privacy policy (for a data protection contact)

A single real address from the site tells you the company's format.

4. Search the web

A quick search often finds an address written on a public page, such as a conference speaker list, a published paper, a GitHub profile or a podcast page. Try searches like:

• "Priya Sharma" "@example.com"
• "Priya Sharma" example email
• site:example.com "Priya Sharma"

If the person has changed jobs, older pages may show an old address, so check the date of the page.

5. Verify the address before you send

Whatever way you found it, check the address before sending. An email verifier asks the company's mail server whether the mailbox exists, without sending a message. Paste the address into Domailfix and you get:

• Deliverable: the mailbox exists. Safe to send.
• Undeliverable: the address does not exist. Do not send.
• Risky or Likely valid: the company accepts every address, so the mailbox cannot be fully confirmed. See what a catch-all email is.
• Unknown: no clear answer right now. Try again later. You are not charged.

What not to do

• Don't send to a guessed address without checking it. Every bounce hurts your sender reputation, and too many can push your emails into spam for everyone.
• Don't buy email lists. They are full of old and fake addresses and spam traps, and sending to them can break the law in many countries.
• Don't email personal addresses for business when a work address is available.

Quick checklist

1. Get the company's real website.
2. Use an email finder, or work out the address from the company's format.
3. Verify the address.
4. Write a short, relevant message that explains why you are reaching out.

Ready to try? Find a work email free with Domailfix.

Questions and answers

Is it legal to find someone's work email?

Finding a business email that is published or follows the company's format is common practice in B2B sales and recruiting. What matters is how you use it: send relevant messages, say who you are, and stop when someone asks you to. Check the rules where you and the recipient are.

How accurate are email finders?

A finder that checks the address with the company's mail server is accurate when the server gives a clear answer. Some companies accept every address, and then no tool can fully confirm a mailbox.