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What is Email deliverability?

Whether your email reaches the recipient's inbox, rather than the spam folder or being rejected.

How it works in practice

It's different from delivery: a message can be accepted by the receiving server and still land in spam. Deliverability depends on authentication, sender reputation, list quality, content and sending behaviour.

The common mistake

Reading a 99% delivery rate as inbox placement.

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