The Three-Category Bounce Model That Changes How You Manage Your List
At Deliverability Summit 2026 in Barcelona, Syed Alam of Postmastery walked through a dataset where roughly 18% of addresses suppressed under a standard hard/soft model were still valid recipients. They had been removed because a 5xx code looked terminal, or because a 4xx kept repeating. Both assumptions were wrong, and both were costing senders revenue […]





