ael is designed for processing e-mail address lists to obtain detailed information, including country of e-mail address registration (and state for addresses in usa), domain owner's name, address, and some other data. with ael you can find out if an e-mail is hosted on a "free email" server (server that provides free e-mail addresses, e.g. hotmail). to discover the country of e-mail registration, ael is using information obtained from whois servers (servers that store information about domain names) and processed with special algorithms to retrieve the requested data. to check if an e-mail belongs to "free email", ael is using special service provided by our company site and a database containing information about over 20 000 "free email" servers, updated on a regular basis. you can save processed e-mail address lists in the text format, in csv format, in ael project file, or you can easily export them to ms excel. ael works under windows '95, windows '98, winme, windows nt 4.0, windows 2000 b, windows xp with microsoft internet explorer 4.0 or newer.