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title: What does Decay Protection do?
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createdAt: 2023-06-27T22:44:27.541Z
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If **Decay Protection** is on, mailfloss automatically verifies your entire connected email service provider email database every month by default (or on the interval you choose with **Change interval**), preventing existing emails from going stale (on average, emails go stale at a rate of 2.1% per month because of job turnover, abandoned addresses and domains, etc).

This is recommended in order to keep your list protected from email decay. If you combine that with Autofloss and an automatic action in the **Cleanup** tab, such as **Unsubscribe** or **Delete from** your provider, you have a completely hands-off and automated approach to email verification. This is what many of our customers do, what we do ourselves, and why mailfloss was built. Talk about convenient! :)

You can turn it on in the **Schedule** tab of your integration, under **Integrations** in the mailfloss app.

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