Mailchimp have very recently changed a few things so that their customers may comply with the GDPR. Deleting unsubscribed and cleaned contacts is something that is now possible. In your list, click the name of the person that you want to delete.
Also, what are cleaned contacts in Mailchimp?
Those are cleaned contacts. This is a good thing because those are emails that you would likely want to remove from your list no matter what. The email reputation of your domain is nothing to play with. However, one thing to keep in mind about cleaned contacts in Mailchimp is the fact that typos are guaranteed to hard bounce.
Do I have to pay for cleaned contacts in Mailchimp?
No, unlike unsubscribed contacts, you do not have to pay for cleaned contacts in Mailchimp. (Did you know you have to pay for unsubscribed contacts in Mailchimp?
What are contacts in Mailchimp?
The people whose information you store in your Mailchimp account are known as your contacts. A person’s contact type determines which campaigns they’re eligible for, and whether they count toward your plan’s monthly contact limit.
A cleaned email address is as far as Mailchimp’s concerned, a dead email address and one that cannot be contacted. In most instances, this is because the email address either doesn’t exist, which is known as a ‘hard’ bounce, or it can’t accept any emails at the moment (it could be full), which is known as a soft bounce.
What does a cleaned contact mean mailchimp?
Below, you’ll learn what does cleaned mean in Mailchimp and why this is fundamental for your campaign strategy. What are cleaned contacts? Cleaned contacts are email addresses that have bounced, therefore are considered invalid. There are hard bounces and soft bounces.
Here is what we found. Contacts with a status of cleaned in Mailchimp are those email addresses where Mailchimp has received notification from the recipients email server that the email address does not exist. Unfortunately contacts can occasionally be marked as cleaned where the email address is in fact valid.
When an email has been marked as ‘Cleaned’ in Mailchimp, that means that either the last email sent to that address hard bounced or there have been multiple repeated soft bounces in a row. A hard bounce happens when an email could not be delivered to the intended address for permanent reasons.
Hard bounces and repeated soft bounces become cleaned contacts. A cleaned contact has a non-deliverable email address, which might be misspelled or invalid.
So when Mailchimp marks an email as ‘cleaned,’ that signals that those emails have been removed from your list due to a single hard bounce, or multiple soft bounces — they are effectively unsubscribed contacts. Those are cleaned contacts.
Why are there typos in my Mailchimp contacts?
As we covered earlier, a common issue with subscriber data is typos in the subscriber email address — like jane@gmail. Com vs. jane@gmil., and com. Insycle can automatically detect subscribers with likely-typos in their email field and help you to fix them in bulk. Your ‘cleaned’ Mailchimp contacts may contain many email addresses that included typos.
How do I clean up my email marketing contacts?
Set the drop-down menus to Email Marketing Status | is | Cleaned. In the pop-up modal, name your segment and click Save. To download a file of your cleaned contacts, click Export Segment. After the export is complete, we’ll send a file of your cleaned contacts to the account owner.