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    Deliverability

    Sender Reputation

    A score inbox providers assign to your sending domain and IP based on engagement, complaints, and bounces.

    Sender reputation is the single biggest factor in whether your emails land in the inbox or spam. It is built from positive signals (opens, clicks, replies, time spent reading) and damaged by negative ones (spam complaints, bounces, deletes-without-opening). Once damaged, reputation takes weeks or months to repair.