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Spam Resource: Do email addresses die? TL;DR? Yes, and…
- August 8, 2023
- Posted by: Top Deliverability
- Category: Industry News Spam Resource
Al Iverson just posted a new insightful blog on Spam Resource:
Okay, so it should be obvious to everyone nowadays that email addresses die. They go dormant because the users on the other end of that mailbox have given up on that mailbox; haven’t checked it in a long amount of time, for whatever reason. That’s an easy question to answer.The harder question is, when do email addresses die? Or when do internet service providers (ISPs) and mailbox providers (MBPs) deactivate inactive email accounts? That varies greatly. By ISP/MBP and by scenario. And not every mailbox provider wants to publicize this information. But here’s what we do know.Google recently announced that they’ll retire dormant accounts after two years of inactivity, and have been emailing every single Google user about this to let them know.Comcast indicates here that if you’re no longer a paying Comcast customer, you get to keep your email address — as long as you accessed it at least
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