Understanding the Email Status

Learn about the different email statuses and their meanings

Basudha Sakshyarika avatar
Written by Basudha Sakshyarika
Updated over a week ago

Every email address associated with a record has an Email status that indicates the validity of the address.


Here are the various email statuses and their meanings:

Unknown:

No emails have been sent to this email address. All new email addresses will have this status by default until an email is sent to them.

Contactable:

One or more emails were successfully delivered to this address.

Hard bounced:

Email delivery was attempted but failed due to either:

  • An invalid email address

  • Non-existent email addresses

Soft bounced:

Email delivery was attempted, and the email address was valid. The email message reached the recipient's mail server but bounced back due to reasons such as:

  • A full mailbox (the user has exceeded their quota)

  • Server issues or temporary problems with the email exchange server

  • The message size exceeded the recipient's inbox limit

  • Firewall restrictions

Marked spam:

The email was delivered but was flagged as spam by the user.

Invalid:

The email associated with the profile is either in an invalid format (invalid email format) or the email domain is invalid (lacks an MX record associated with the email domain).


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