uk-netmarketing Archive (2011-2015)

No email provider, or system, will want to send to email addresses that are likely to bounce. The reason Mailchimp et al either won't allow it or shut your account is because it causes sender reputation problems with the receiving ISPs (Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo etc) along with filter / blacklist organisations and software which affect delivery to both webmail and corporate domains using them.

Also, if the data is old, people may no longer be interested in receiving the emails or forgotten they ever signed up and complain (easily done by clicking ' mark as junk/spam')

And old data is where ISP spam traps live - these are email addresses from accounts no longer used, recycled by ISPs to monitor emails sent to them to determine how responsible you are as a sender.

All these things (and a whole lot more besides) will affect email delivery.

My recommendation is to start with sending to small amounts of data from the most recent data age backwards and see how many bounces, complaints and spam trap hits you get. This should give you an idea of the state of the data and how far back you can go.

The alternative is to use a service which 'pings' the address to validate if it's dead or not but ISPs hate this practice so this could also get you into trouble.


Tony
www.inboxwarriors.co.uk



On 9 Apr 2013, at 17:01, Caroline <caroline at radarmusicvideos.com> wrote:

> ....but Mailchimp will immediately suspend your account if hard bounces are more than ?% can't remember how much.
> I know this having used someone else's list, which it turned out was old and appalling.
> 
> I know, don't judge me. Well actually do judge me, it was hardly a professional thing to do.
> 
> Sorry I can't remember the % for immediate suspension (it was a long time ago), but you are quite stuffed if they ban you and you can't get back on again.
> 
> So you need some pre-cleaning process before you attempt to use Mailchimp. They suggest one to one communication with double opt in to clean it up. There must be a faster way though.
> best
> 
> Caroline
> 
> 
> On 8 Apr 2013, at 13:30, Ty-John Roberts wrote:
> 
>> Hi Damian
>> 
>> Mailchimp cleans up your soft and hard bounces automatically.
>> 
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> ty
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>> On 5 Apr 2013, at 15:34, Damian Jennings <damianjennings at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Afternoon all
>> 
>> Been AAAAGES since I used this list. Been working in different industry. However, now I am doing some mainstream work again and have a new client with a rather dirty email list. I want to get the hard bounces removed before he ruins his IP. 
>> 
>> I know there are some services which will 'pretend' to send mail to the address, and if they get valid response from the ISP mail server will report it as a 'good' address. 
>> 
>> Any recommendations?
>> 
>> Thanks and happy Friday
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