High bounce rate after flossing

if you're getting a bounce rate 10% or higher after using mailfloss something is wrong if using an integration the first thing to check is the aggressiveness setting if it's set to a custom floss setting , you may be excluding some crucial tests, which could lead to a higher bounce rate you may want to use the normal setting or even aggressive, instead to determine the best setting for your needs, click the "help me decide" link beside the "aggressiveness options" in the app you can also read more about aggressiveness settings here https //docs mailfloss com/email verification aggressiveness options the second thing to check is if you have manual mode turned on if you do, have you looked in the integrations page to see if there are any invalid email addresses? these will accumulate in the integrations page under your connected integration if left unattended if you have manual mode turned on, the invalid email addresses are not automatically removed you will need to visit the integrations tab and manually remove the email addresses yourself if using the file upload or copy and paste methods if you've exported the mailfloss floss report and uploaded the results to your email service provider directly, make sure you are using only email addresses that have passed and not the email addresses that haven't this is a fairly common mistake as the result report contains both failed and passed addresses you can read more about the status and category definitions here https //docs mailfloss com/status definitions and here https //docs mailfloss com/category definitions other things to consider there are many reasons an email address can bounce, and mailfloss helps reduce this by identifying email addresses that are invalid but an invalid email address is not the only reason an email address bounces the easiest way to see the reason an email address bounced is to look at the bounce report the bounce report should have indicators like the bounce message and bounce reason some of the reasons that are not related to invalid email addresses include dmarc is incorrectly configured blocked due to policy rejected by spam filter soft bounce due to technical errors if contacting us about high bounce rates, please include the bounce report in the support ticket this is critical for us to help you figure out what might be happening most email service providers consider 7 8% or more as a high bounce rate, and when many email service providers will start issuing warnings and banning accounts we try to get the bounce rate below 5% to keep you in the safe zone, and ideally below 3% please note the only way to 100% truly verify an email address is real with the intended recipient on the other end is to have the recipient respond to a sent email and verify that they are real no service will be able to get that completely right all of the time, but we try our best and are constantly improving our service with new tests and techniques