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Obviously you have to take other precautions and not just blindly try to validate any email you get. But my point was you shouldn't reject an email only becaus
by jedberg 4y ago
Obviously you have to take other precautions and not just blindly try to validate any email you get. But my point was you shouldn't reject an email only because it fails regex validation.
Also, those services don't ding you if you get a single bounce from a new email. They only start penalizing you if you repeatedly send to the same email and it bounces. You could always put checks in place to store previously failed email addresses.
And if your business is generating a bunch of take signups, it sounds like you need to put some rate limits on your sign up page.
And of course that's not deliverable, you can't use a : outside of a quoted part. :) But that is actually a perfect example of why you can't use a regex. Maybe they modified their mail server to accept it.
- hooverd 4y agoYea, SES has a suppression list you manage that by default doesn't send. You can rig up an event bus to automatically add bounces to it.
- ComputerGuru 4y agoThe initial bounce still counts against it. (Also the suppression list isn’t set up automatically.)
- jedberg 4y ago> The initial bounce still counts against it No one knows that for sure, Amazon doesn't publish how they determine what counts against you. But from everything I've seen anecdotally, it does not. If you review the bounces and suppress the emails, it works just fine. Getting booted for bounces really only happens to high volume senders who are using scraped lists to send cold emails. And it's mostly the complaints that ruin your reputation, not the bounces.
- hooverd 4y agoPlus, if you spend enough to have a TAM you'll hear about it before anything bad happens.