How to Reduce your email bounce rate

Here is how to reduce your email bounce rate, step by step.

The steps

Validate lists before sending, suppress hard bounces immediately, use double opt-in, and remove stale addresses to keep bounces under ~2%.

Why it matters

Getting this right is part of landing in the inbox instead of spam. See the full deliverability checklist.

How Rainmail helps

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