Retries retries
When an email message fails due to a temporary Soft bounce error for a given address, several retries are performed. Each error increments an error counter. When this counter reaches the limit threshold, the email address is added to the suppression list.
In the default configuration, the threshold is set to 5 errors.
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For the same delivery, at the fifth encountered error within the retry time period, the address is suppressed.
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If there are different deliveries and two errors occur at least 24 hours apart, the error counter is incremented upon each error and the address is also suppressed at the fifth attempt. Errors are cumulative for each address.
If a delivery is successful after a retry, the error counter of the address is reinitialized.
For example:
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You send an email on Monday with a retry time period set to 24 hours. The emma.jones@mail.com address fails to be delivered. The email is retried up to three times, and stops retrying upon reaching the 24-hour retry period.
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You send another email on Wednesday. The emma.jones@mail.com, that already has a three-error count, is also targeted, and again fails to be delivered - twice. Two more errors are accounted for.
Provided no other delivery was attempted and successful between those two emails, the emma.jones@mail.com address is added to the suppression list given the cumulative impact of 3 + 2 errors.
Retry threshold edition edit-retry-threshold
In case the default value of 5 does not suit your needs, you can modify the error threshold following the steps below.
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Go to Channels > Email configuration > Suppression list.
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Select the Edit suppression rules button.
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Edit the allowed number of consecutive soft bounces according to your needs.
You must enter an integer value between 1 and 20, meaning that the minimum number of retries is 1 and the maximum number is 20.
note caution CAUTION Any value higher than 10 may cause deliverability reputation issues, as well as IP throttling or blocklisting by ISPs. Learn more on deliverability
Retry time period retry-duration
The retry time period is the timeframe in which any email message of the delivery that encountered a temporary error or soft bounce will be retried.
By default, retries will be performed for 3.5 days (or 84 hours) from the time the message was added to the email queue.
However, to ensure that retry attempts are not performed anymore when no longer needed, you can change this setting according to your needs when creating or editing a channel surface (i.e. message preset) applying to the email channel.
For example, you may set the retry period to 24 hours for a transactional email relating to password reset and containing a link valid for only a day. Similarly, for a midnight sale, you may want to define a retry period of 6 hours.
Learn how to adjust the email retry parameters when creating a channel surface in this section.