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Email Deliverability in 2025: Are Your Messages Reaching Inboxes?
The state of email deliverability in 2025. New challenges, stricter filters, and how to ensure your messages reach inboxes.
Anirudh Kaushal·January 15, 2025What Does Accept-All/Catch-All Mean in NeverBounce?
Understanding accept-all and catch-all email results in NeverBounce. Learn what these classifications mean and how to handle them for better deliverability.
Nick Abraham·November 20, 2024
A detailed comparison of NeverBounce and ZeroBounce email verification services. Compare features, pricing, accuracy, and catch-all handling.
Nick Abraham·November 15, 2024201 articles found
How to Audit a Purchased or Scraped B2B Email List Before You Send a Single Email
A bought, scraped or enriched B2B list arrives looking clean and labelled verified. It rarely is. Here is a step-by-step audit to run before the first send: provenance, structure, duplicates, role and trap risk, validation, and the catch-all segment that every standard check waves through.
Amit S.·October 26, 2026
How Long Does Catch-All Email Verification Take?
Standard verification returns in seconds but cannot resolve catch-all addresses. On Scrubby, Quick Verification settles most of them in minutes with a catch-all probe. Deep Verification is for the rest: it sends real email and observes mail server behaviour over 72 hours, with first results in 24 hours and final results in 72 hours.
Amit S.·October 26, 2026
Is It Bad to Send Cold Emails to Catch-All Addresses?
Sending unverified catch-all addresses from your main domain is risky. It is not always bad. When to verify, segment or skip them, and what verifying costs.
Nick Abraham·October 26, 2026
Apple Mail Privacy Protection Broke Open Rates: How to Measure List Health Without Them
Apple Mail Privacy Protection pre-fetches and proxies tracking pixels, which means an open can be recorded for a message nobody read. That quietly ruins engagement scoring, sunset policies, and the habit of using open rate as a proxy for list health. Here is what the relay actually does, which metrics survive it, and how to rebuild list hygiene on signals that cannot be faked.
Amit S.·October 16, 2026
Outlook High-Volume Sender Requirements: What SPF, DKIM, and DMARC Do Not Fix
Microsoft now requires SPF, DKIM, and aligned DMARC from any domain sending more than 5,000 messages a day to Outlook.com. Passing those three checks is the entry fee, not the finish line. Here is what the requirements actually say, how to read a 550 5.7.515 rejection, and why list quality decides what happens after you are compliant.
Kristel K.·October 15, 2026
Two Validators, Two Verdicts: How to Reconcile Conflicting Email Verification Results
You ran the same list through two verification tools and got two different answers on thousands of addresses. That is not a bug in either tool. Here is how to read the disagreement, which verdict to trust in each case, and the one reconciliation rule that quietly destroys lists.
Abhinav·October 14, 2026
Your Email List Has More Duplicates Than You Think: A Practical Guide to Alias Normalization
Your ESP removes duplicates by matching the address string exactly, so [email protected] and [email protected] survive as two contacts. They are one person, and they both get the email. Here is how to normalize aliases properly, and the one rule you must not break when you do.
Kristel K.·October 14, 2026
Inbox Placement Testing: How to Build a Seed List That Tells You Where Your Email Actually Lands
Your ESP reports 99% delivered, which only means nothing bounced. It says nothing about whether anyone saw the message. A seed list is the only way to watch your own mail arrive and see which folder it lands in. Here is how to build one that does not lie to you.
Nick Abraham·October 11, 2026
How to Read DMARC Aggregate Reports: Turning RUA XML Into Real Deliverability Fixes
Publishing a DMARC record is the easy part. The reports that come back are compressed XML that nobody reads, which is why so many senders sit at p=none for years. Here is how to decode a RUA report element by element, tell a real spoofer from a mailing list, and know which failures you can safely ignore.
Nick Abraham·October 9, 2026
Reverse DNS and PTR Records: The Email Authentication Check Most Senders Never Configure
SPF, DKIM, and DMARC live in your DNS zone, so you can fix them yourself. A PTR record does not, which is why so many senders have one that is missing, generic, or pointing at the wrong hostname. Here is how reverse DNS is actually checked, who controls it, and how to set it correctly on every major sending platform.
Amit S.·October 8, 2026
Microsoft SNDS Setup Guide: How to Monitor Your Outlook and Microsoft 365 Sender Reputation
Google Postmaster Tools tells you how Gmail sees you. It tells you nothing about Outlook, Hotmail, or Microsoft 365, which is where most of your B2B pipeline actually lives. Here is how to get into Smart Network Data Services, read what it reports, and fix the list quality problems it exposes.
Kristel K.·October 7, 2026
How to Clean Your Iterable User List and Reduce Bounce Rate Before Your Next Journey Send
Iterable pulls user profiles in from Segment, reverse ETL, product events, and CSV imports, which means bad addresses arrive from five directions at once. Here is the workflow to clean your Iterable user list, resolve the catch-all B2B addresses standard verifiers refuse to answer, and protect your sending reputation before the next journey fires.
Amit S.·October 6, 2026Stay Updated on Email Validation
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