I have launched a campaign with Amazon Pinpoint and didn't enable event stream. Now there is 4.6% of hard bounced emails which is not a good number.
I am trying to get those emails and remove from the list, but can not find them.
What I have tried so far is querying metrics for the campaign, but only got the number of hard bounced emails, tried to get the suppression list, but didn't find how.
Also account suppression list is not activated so I can not query them from there.
Does anyone had a problem like this? Can you please help me detect those emails?
Thank you.
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We have a newsletter where people opt-in (everything is on the up and up here). As people leave jobs (fired, layoffs, etc.), we still send to those emails and now after a few years, we have a considerable amount of emails that need to be purged.
The inbox that is receiving the bounces/invalid emails is a gmail account. We can filter (via a search) and find the emails that need to be removed but how can we export those emails to a list so that we can clean up our distribution list? Are there any tools that would help simply this?
We are looking into mailgun and sendgrid for future send outs but we need to clean up the list before we migrate. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
Our tech stack is apache/coldfusion 11 (not that it matters but in case it helps).
You could use CF to log into gmail and pull all the messages. Then loop through them all to find the bounce messages. Appending those bounced email addressed to a simple flat file. If you want to get fancy you can use a database, but I think a simple text file would do in this case. One email address per line.
I just read that you are deleting those bounced email addresses from a database. IF you're confident of your coding the above idea, you could directly delete from your database rather than saving a file.
I recently published a DMARC record with my domain to try and improve my email delivery to gmail. Everything seems to be going according to plan, except that I am receiving reports from strange places like qq.com and italiaonline.it.
I didn't expect to get reports from places like these and I was wondering if this is normal and acceptable, or if I should avoid unzipping these reports. Thanks for any help!
That's what happens, DMARC shows what places may be spoofing using your email addresses.
In your report, if the IP listed is not your IP, then most likely it's someone spoofing with your email addresses. If it's your IP then either you sent emails to those places or someone has access to your SMTP and is sending mail through it without your knowledge.
Those reports you are getting has all the information in it and they are generally save to open up. If you take a look here you'll see some of the places you'll get DMARC REPORTS from.
I can confirm I got reports from mailauth-reports#qq.com but I haven't got one from italiaonline.it yet.
If you want a friendly way to parse the reports try DMARCIAN
My Mailchimp blocks sending the e-mails after I imported a larger number of e-mails.
I still have enough space of e-mails left but when I try sending the mail I get the following error:
List
MailChimp's artificial intelligence system, Omnivore, automatically scanned your recent import. Omnivore detected that abuse rates for the campaign will exceed industry thresholds. This needs to be resolved before we can support sending to this list.
To resolve this, we must ask that the list data be removed and reconfirmed through a verifiable process. Once this is done, the campaign can be replicated and resent.
But I can not resend to all my clients a subscriber link!
How can I solve this error so I can finally send e-mails again?
Maybe you've alrady solved this, but if not, or anyone struggling with this...
I had the same problem. My solution (after contact with MailChimp support):
Delete all imported emails from the list.
Your Campaign probably still won't send, with same error, so:
Replicate the campaign. The new one will now be able to send.
This worked for me. If not for you, maybe the contact I had with the Compliance Team of Mailchimp was the solution and they confirmed my deleting of the emails. So email and stalk them.
The main issue for the blocking by Omnivore, was probably the amount of info# and ofice# addresses in the import list. At least delete ALL of those before import.
Cheers,
Richard
I tried to import a larget list of subscribers. I eventually figured out that I had to split the CSV file into multiple CSV files with a maximum of 200 entries (subscriber rows) in each for Omnivore to stop complaining.
CSV Splitter (free Windows program) did the trick of splitting my large CSV into smaller chunks.
Before importing, I verified the email addreses in the subscriber list using Free Email Verifier (free online tool), as Omnivore might be cheching for non-existing email adresses.
It might also be unhappy of role based email addresses like postmaster#example.com, but then you will get a notification with a link to display the problematic email address(es).
MailChimp's Omnivore spam filter throws lots of false positives. Unfortunately, they don't check their compliance questionnaires in a timely manner.
Sending an email to Compliance#mailchimp.com is your best bet.
I have an unusual problem for a project I'm working on - I need to receive spam. Does anyone know how to get on a spammers email list?
For the curious - I'm interested to know if applying reverse dns and SPF on an email server actually blocks spam and/or ham so I've written a smtp server that will check them. I just need to be spammed.
Search for "Enter email to win" in your favorite search engine and enter your email.
And who knows, besides getting spam, you might also win something :)
edit:
Also make sure, that mail server which you are using is not doing any spam filtering already.
The "public" address for our company gets tonnes of spam each day without filtering.
Come to think of it, you could also set up a dummy web page with the email address for spam on it and get it indexed by search engines. This is how we get spam. Although we are not specifically looking for it.
One way is to put your email address on as many forums as you can. Like this:
stevej#exegro.info
kjones#exegro.info
clane#exegro.info
nadav.kozlovsky#exegro.info
SKL#exegro.info
glenn#exegro.info
robn#exegro.info
Spammer are sure to pick this up.
I've been trying to send transactional emails to Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo inboxes but most of the time they are going to spam folder.
I already tried using SPF, DKIM filter, multi-part message and still couldn't get the "magic solution" that always work.
If someone has experience on that, please share some tips and links about this.
I appreciate any help.
Thank you!
Each provider will have it's own rules for creating emails that are not to be treated as spam and these will vary. I don't a simple one size fits all solution will exist.
mhere is no dependable way to circumvent span filters. Spam evolves, counter measures evolve.
If you supply an email-based registration system the user will have an interaction with you as part of their email record. I would imagine the fact that they responded to an email from your domain may get you over the "spammy" threshold. Context is starting to count.