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title: Brevo email verification options
slug: brevo-email-verification-options
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createdAt: 2023-06-21T20:38:41.000Z
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When mailfloss finds an invalid email in Brevo (formerly Sendinblue), the **Cleanup** tab of your Brevo integration decides what happens. You have five options. The setting applies to every list in the connection, and you can change it any time.

Before you choose an option, connect Brevo to mailfloss. You only do this once. From then on, mailfloss verifies the emails in the [connected Brevo](https://docs.mailfloss.com/how-to-connect-brevo-to-mailfloss) account automatically.

Here are the five options in the **Cleanup** tab:

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**Ask me first.** The safest option. mailfloss lists invalid emails in the **Waiting for you** tab, and nothing changes in Brevo until you decide.

![](https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/yGUejq6E8IJ_sYX6JSjSr/4hpiCHPCjuXyX9fIMnykb_waiting-for-you-tab.png)

In **Waiting for you**, select emails and choose **Unsubscribe**, **Delete**, or **Update custom fields**. You can also mark them **Report incorrect** or **Ignore**, and filter the list by category.

**Unsubscribe.** The recommended option. mailfloss unsubscribes the contact in Brevo and removes it from the lists it belongs to, so it stops receiving campaigns. You can resubscribe it in Brevo at any time. When you choose this option, mailfloss asks you to confirm. Turn on the switch under **Unsubscribe** to also update the fields.

**Delete from Brevo.** Irreversible. mailfloss removes the contact from the lists it belongs to in Brevo. Before this option turns on, mailfloss shows what your last run would have deleted and asks you to type the account name to confirm.

**Update a field.** mailfloss writes the verification result to custom fields in Brevo, so your segments can exclude invalid emails. You can also use them to sync with your other databases and CRMs. This is reversible.

For more information about our custom fields [check this article](https://docs.mailfloss.com/what-are-the-custom-fields-and-tags-that-mailfloss-updates-and-which-esps-support-them).

**Report only.** mailfloss emails you a report of the latest floss session. Nothing changes in Brevo. Choose this option if you only want the verification statuses for the connected Brevo account, like a traditional email validation service.

For an overview of what mailfloss does for Brevo, see the [Brevo integration page](https://mailfloss.com/integrations/brevo/).