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Email verification

Check a list’s addresses before you send to it, so the dead ones are blocked instead of bouncing.

Settings & dataabout 4 min
By the end you'll be able to
  • Check a list before you send to it
  • Stop Zenia emailing addresses that would bounce
  • Get a list of the contacts whose details need fixing
  • Understand what each verification result means

Walk through it

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  1. Choose one of this brand’s contact lists. Verification reads every member’s email address — a smart list is fine, it uses whoever matches right now.

    You can also start from a list: open it and use "Verify emails" in the header.

    Open Email verification
Good to know
  • Results are shared across every brand. An address verified for one brand is already sorted for the others, and is never paid for twice.
  • An address found invalid is blocked for everything, including receipts and password resets, because sending to a mailbox that does not exist damages your sending reputation whatever the message is.
  • A disposable address is blocked for marketing only — transactional mail still goes, since the person did sign up with it.
  • Contacts that arrive later — from an import, a connector or a form — pick up an existing verdict automatically within a few minutes.
  • Verification never overrides an unsubscribe, a real bounce or a complaint. Those still mean what they always meant.
  • This needs an API key from NeverBounce. Until one is set, the page says so and nothing else in Zenia changes.
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