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Reducing your email bounce rate

InEvent author Updated 2 months ago by Bissen Ouesleti

This article intends to help you to prevent your event's email quota from being blocked due to a high bounce rate. Compliance with the company standards is crucial to ensure the deliverability of your communications. Having a high bounce rate will make emails more likely to be block-listed by recipient servers (consequently increasing your bounce rate even more), generating IP reputation issues. Furthermore, messages will more likely be labeled as spam if you have a low reputation due to email bounces.

There are two cases in which the mailing could be blocked:

  1. Mailing bouncing back or blocked by the client's ISP
  2. Mailing blocked due to risky e-mail lists.
Please note that your email sending capabilities will be blocked if you reach a 5% bounce rate.
Once the InEvent platform tries to send the Confirmation email to users with invalid email addresses or registered only using their usernames, the email will not be sent. Despite being displayed in the Email senders page, this information will not be featured in the Email Analytics page and, therefore, will not be tracked.

Mailing bouncing back or blocked by the client's ISP

ISP
ISP stands for Internet Service Provider. In email marketing, ISP refers to the major email providers: Hotmail, Outlook, Gmail, etc. and it's the job of the ISP to protect their customers (your email recipients) receiving unwanted or unsolicited emails.

One of the methods used by ISP to spam-blocking is block lists. Just a few spam complaints can land an IP address on a block list, even if the ratio of complaints to the volume of email sent is very low.  Unfortunately, these block lists also contain many legitimate email service providers (ESPs) and sender domains.

Status that causes bounce

The Bounce rate at the Email analytics might be going up, if the Status under the Email logs shows as one of the following:

  • bounce: It means the email was returned to the sender because it cannot be delivered.
  • HardBounce: This is a permanent delivery error caused by an invalid email address (A mistyped email or a non-existent destination server)
  • email-is-invalid: Invalid emails can have typos or format issues that do not lead to a legitimate inbox or if the user changes their email, leaving the previous one without a user.
  • email-is-risky: Risky email addresses are those that have low deliverability. They may exist but are currently facing technical issues that show very low engagement in that mailbox.
  • email-on-blocklist: It means your email was labeled as spam and will not make it to its intended inbox destination.
  • email-on-global-blocklist: The email was added to a global block list because of a hard bounce.
  • environment-not-allowed: This means there is no email entered on the platform.
  • SoftBounce: The email address was canceled recently
  • DnsError: This is an error in the Domain Name System, which means you’re unable to connect to an IP address, signaling that you may have lost network or internet access.
  • Blocked: The email is being rejected by the receiving server.
  • Unknown: These are unrecognized email addresses. This could be a temporary status for domains having intermittent issues or a permanent issue for dead domains.

On the other hand, these subsequent status does not converge into bounce rate:

Delivered:

  • processed: Your message is in the submission process.
  • delivered: Your message has arrived in your recipient's email box
  • AutoResponder: Email with an automatic response
  • Transient.
Transient bounce
A Transient bounce is a bounced email that’s rejected by the recipient mail server because of a temporary failure. Temporary failures that can lead to a soft bounce include: The recipient mailbox is full or the recipient mailbox is temporarily unavailable. In other words, a transient email can become a soft bounce and therefore be added it up to the Bounce rate.

Spam:

  • SpamComplaint: The email was classified by the user as spam.
  • SpamNotification: Email was automatically blocked as spam.

Preventing mailing from being blocked by ISP

To help lower the bounce rate when the DNS is not resolving, you can disable the email link tracking tool. To do this, go to Settings > Tools > press Edit and toggle the Email link tracking tool off.

Email link tracking tool

Setting InEvent domain as a safe sender

If you are sending invites to government addresses, it would be recommended to set the InEvent domain as a safe sender since governmental domains usually block this sort of communication.

Mailing blocked due to risky e-mail lists

The InEvent platform could be blocked from sending more e-mails in case too many e-mails bounce back due to poor e-mail health.

InEvent is rigorous about spam, and we are not allowed to send any type of spam mail. Check our Spam policy page for further information.
Spam policy included in the Master Subscription Agreement (MSA)
Customers shall not use Services in any way to submit, process, deliver or engage with spam. The spam policy determines that any event that has an email bounce rate of over 5% is out of policy. Spam is considered to be any email that returns a soft bounce. Domain-wide emails, deactivated emails, locked emails and full mailboxes, even if internal to the organization, that return a soft bounce, are considered to be spam by the delivery system. The delivery system has a strict spam policy to deliver emails successfully, quickly and effectively. If the Customer exceeds the spam policy, an automatic electronic notification will be delivered to the Customer. Access to all current and future emails for the event will be automatically shut down. Customers will not be able to send additional emails from the event, including invitations, reminders and custom emails. Previously scheduled emails will not be sent or delivered. Customers may choose to create a new event if they choose to bear the costs for the new event. Credits from the previous event will not be able to be used in the newly created event. Credits from the previous event cannot be transferred to the new event. InEvent will not bear the cost or be responsible for events that violate the spam policy. InEvent strongly recommends that only verified and checked emails are uploaded and processed.

Preventing mailing from being blocked

After registration is finished

If you invited all participants or closed registrations for this particular event, you should disable any e-mail classified as unknown or invalid on the Email health page.

To do this, go to Marketing > Communication > Email health > press Edit and uncheck the box under the e-mail health column.

Marketing > Communication > Email health

This will prevent the platform to send future communication to emails that have already been classified as spam.

To learn more about e-mail health, you can check this article.

During registration

If you are hosting an event that uses invitation only and the registration is still open but the event cannot have more bounces, you can follow the steps below:

  1. Set the event as a draft so the platform will stop sending communication.
  2. Remove the invitees' list
  3. Create a copy of the event
  4. Filter the invitees' list on several platforms, such as Bouncer, Neverbounce, or Hunter.
  5. Upload the clean list to the copied event.
Please note that by re-uploading attendees to a new event you will be using the registration credits available in your account.
  1. If anyone has already registered for the original event, they will have to do it again.
If registration is opened to the public, the bounce rate can get affected again.

Reducing the bounce rate

  • Clean up your mailing list and keep it clean. This will improve open rates and engagement with your audience. Do not add bogus emails as they will increase your bounce rate.
  • Generate your mailing lists from a form that asks permission for receiving messages. If you are doing business in the European Union, you may be legally required to do this anyway.
  • Avoid sounding like a spammer. Make sure your emails don't have spammy subject lines that would trigger spam filters on the recipients' inbox.

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