User Guide

User Guide

What Do the Hygiene Results Mean?

What Do the Hygiene Results Mean?

The hygiene results have the following meanings:
Safe US
The email address is based in the US and is safe.
Safe International
The address is based internationally and is safe.
Invalid
The address has been determined to be invalid by the hygiene processing. These are often redirected domains or domains that do not have email servers set up properly.
Spam Trap
The address or domain has been determined to be a spam trap or honey pot by the hygiene processing. Emailing these addresses may result in damage to your email reputation.
Mole
The address or domain shows historical evidence of being associated with submissions to spam tracking services.
Former Trap
The address or domain has been previously identified as a spam trap, but at this time would be considered safe if the process did not consider historical evidence.
Seed
The address is a third-party oversight addresses specifically used for monitoring resources, for example for deliverability monitoring. Also included in this category are any litigious addresses, or those who seed their email address for the sole purpose of litigation. Habitual complainers, or those who have an extremely high rate of spam complaints, are also included in this category.
Pattern Match
This status uses typical key words, phrases, or patterns that are used for trap purposes. Also included in this category are role based addresses that typically are not delivered to a specific person such as info, support, or sales.
Parked
Parked domains can be used as honey-pots for spam blocklist agencies, making them very dangerous to email. A domain can be considered parked for several reasons, including the domain being for sale, or the domain being registered but never taken live.
Unknown
The address or domain did not result in a specific hygiene result. The most common cause of this return value is a timeout during hygiene processing.

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