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Delivery
What is Bounce rate?
The share of messages that couldn't be delivered.
How it works in practice
Keep the hard bounce rate under about 2%; anything higher signals a poor list to providers. It's the clearest measure of list quality you control.
The common mistake
Watching only the overall rate and missing a single bad list that pushes it over.
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