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kelly
Helper ⭐️⭐️⭐️
August 12, 2019
Question

Why would a system-level IP block affect only some addresses at a domain?

  • August 12, 2019
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I have 3 contacts at an account that were sent the first two emails of a Welcome series. Two of the three contacts hard bounced for the second email, and one contact has successfully received the first two and a third email. When I look up the bounce reason, it states:

421 4.7.1: Data command rejected: IP blocked for behavior.

Wouldn't the third contact also be blocked at the recipient domain if it is blocking the IP address (all contacts were emailed in the same batch)? Should I remove the blacklist for the two contacts or is it a valid suppression? Is there a report I can pull to provide all bounces with their reasons YTD?

How strictly does Gainsight monitor its customers' sending habits and their impacts to overall deliverability? I feel like I see more 'global suppression' type bounces than I've seen at other ESPs, and those were prospect email lists which I'd argue are higher risk than what should be primarily customer contacts for any of Gainsight's customers. A support ticket indicated it should be 'rare' that customers would share the same contacts and thus impacts from the global suppression should be minimal, however with Enterprise-level customers I'd argue the opposite and we are in-fact being affected by the global suppression.

4 replies

john_apple
Expert ⭐️
August 12, 2019
+1 on your last paragraph. We are similiarly concerned with "global suppression" and it's impact on being able to communicate with our customers.

kelly
kellyAuthor
Helper ⭐️⭐️⭐️
August 13, 2019
I inquired about dedicated IPs but those are not offered yet. Their range of IPs was pretty significant, and none are on blacklists so I hoped it wouldn't be an issue but there's been a definite uptick in our number of failed contacts entering programs as well as our own contacts bouncing for IP-level reasons.

This is really frustrating.

dan_ahrens
Expert ⭐️⭐️⭐️
August 13, 2019
Any inputs on this one @manu_mittal and @nitisha_rathi ?

VP of Customer Success at Forcepoint
john_apple
Expert ⭐️
August 14, 2019
To your scenario @kelly, do you know if perhaps those two contacts that bounced were on a different mail server than the one that received all messages?