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title: Gist email verification options
slug: gist-email-verification-options
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createdAt: 2023-06-21T20:38:39.000Z
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When mailfloss finds an invalid email in Gist, the **Cleanup** tab of your Gist 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 Gist to mailfloss. You only do this once. From then on, mailfloss verifies the emails in the [connected Gist](https://docs.mailfloss.com/how-to-connect-gist-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 Gist until you decide.

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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 Gist and removes it from the lists it belongs to, so it stops receiving campaigns. Under the contact’s Subscription preferences in Gist, the “Unsubscribed from all emails” switch is on. You can resubscribe it in Gist at any time. When you choose this option, mailfloss asks you to confirm. Turn on the switch under **Unsubscribe** to also update the fields.

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**Delete from Gist.** Irreversible. mailfloss removes the contact for good, and you won’t find it in Gist anymore. 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 fields in Gist, so your segments can exclude invalid emails. You can also use them to sync with your other databases and CRMs. This is reversible.

For finding this information, click on the subscriber and go to the "Details" section on the left side of your screen. You'll need to click on "Show more" and scroll down to the bottom part of the section.

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There you will find the validation result, status, and reason.

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).

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

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