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Email deliverability was part of my job for around 8 years. Providers will absolutely send you a bounce message (via the return path email) if an inbox does no
by bcrosby95 6y ago
Email deliverability was part of my job for around 8 years. Providers will absolutely send you a bounce message (via the return path email) if an inbox does not exist. Or even if it is full.
The messaging is not standard so you have to do all sorts of special case parsing because each provider can give a different message. And ignoring these messages will hurt your ability to deliver email.
So if your plan is to hide your address from people, again, I don't see the point.
- sokoloff 6y agoI believe there's value to marketers to know "this email address somewhat reliably hits a human's eyeballs" as evidenced by a click-to-unsubscribe or click-to-refute action as a stronger signal than "well, we didn't get a bounce". "Email providers already tell people sending email when an address is real or not." suggests a level of reliability of signal that simply doesn't exist. I have an infinite number of email addresses that you could send to, which would not give you a bounce, and none of which will reliably land in front of a human's eyeballs.
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