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Have questions about the improvements being made to your email and contact list? Below are the answers to the most common questions about email and contact list enhancements.

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Upcoming changes

Improvements and features are being added to improve your contact list management and boost your email deliverability. These ensure you have innovative email tools with much-needed protection, reliability, and stability. These improvements have one simple goal: helping you get more of your emails in more inboxes.

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Summary of changes

  • Filter out high-risk contacts during import
  • Understand the risk levels of your contacts
  • Use reCAPTCHA to prevent abuse
  • Protect your lists from suspicious activity
  • Identify and exclude inactive contacts from email sending
  • Automate spam trap detection
  • Operational enhancements for transactional emails
Learn more about the email and contact list enhancements on the Kajabi blog.

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Overall changes FAQs

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How do all these changes benefit me?

These changes and investments are being made because of the important role email plays in helping your business thrive. Specifically, this set of updates and enhancements to the contact list and deliverability functions of the platform will result in more of your emails in more of your contacts’ inboxes.

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Are my contacts being unsubscribed?

No, your contacts are not being unsubscribed as part of this process.

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Do I have to delete my contact list?

No, you will not have to delete your contact list. However, it is good practice to clean your list regularly. Kajabi will help you maintain a healthy mailing list by identifying and informing you of any action steps for inactive or high-risk contacts. Learn the best practices for growing and maintaining a healthy mailing list.

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Can I opt-out of these changes?

No, these updates are being put in place to strengthen your email deliverability. With these updates in place, you’ll have a higher and more consistent sending reputation.

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Stronger contact import validation

Email validation processes are being enhanced to improve email deliverability and performance. Learn more about email address validation.

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How will this affect me during the import process?

You may notice that certain contacts do not successfully import. This is because they are identified as high-risk contacts that may be detrimental to your email deliverability and sender reputation. If a specific contact is identified as a high-risk contact you will receive an email notifying you of the specific contact and the reason they were not successfully imported.

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Will current contacts be affected by the validation process?

Your current contacts will remain on your list. However, with the latest updates, Kajabi will analyze your contacts and flag high-risk and inactive email addresses and exclude them from receiving your marketing emails. Learn more about email address validation and contact exclusion. If a high-risk contact is added to your site, but they visibly engage with your emails they will not be excluded from receiving your marketing emails.

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Use reCAPTCHA to prevent abuse

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What is a reCAPTCHA?

The reCAPTCHA is a Google service that will limit automated abuse by protecting your contact lists and business from bots. Rather than the manual approach of checking boxes with certain images in them, the invisible reCAPTCHA is only invoked when it detects malicious traffic.

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How will reCAPTCHA impact current Forms?

reCAPTCHA has been added to your Form Settings to allow you to activate or deactivate reCAPTCHA on Forms that do not use Double Opt-In. Learn how reCAPTCHA can help you maintain a healthy mailing list.

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Do I need to add the reCAPTCHA to Forms myself or will they automatically appear?

Your Forms can include a reCAPTCHA if you enable the setting in your Form Settings. This will ensure that any Forms that do not use Double Opt-In activate reCAPTCHA if necessary. Learn how to activate and deactivate reCAPTCHA.

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Can I disable reCAPTCHA on Forms?

Yes, reCAPTCHA will be available in your Form Settings which will allow you to turn it on and off as desired. Learn how to activate and deactivate reCAPTCHA. The reCAPTCHA on opt-in Forms is quickly becoming the industry standard and implementation is being actively informed by your feedback. For those not interested in reCAPTCHA, you will still have the option to enable double opt-in functionality instead and deactivate reCAPTCHA from your Forms. Learn to set up double opt-in on a form.

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Is my integration affected?

For Forms associated with a third-party integration, the reCAPTCHA will not be affected. If you are integrated with Zapier, your Zaps will work as intended. Additional security enhancements are being developed for the future.

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Rate limiting for Forms

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What is rate limiting?

Rate limiting is used to control the rate of web pages that may be requested or submitted by any one person or bot.

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How will this protect me?

Rate limiting can be used to prevent DoS attacks, bots, and limit web scraping. This will ensure that your forms are protected from bots that attempt to mass submit emails to your site.

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Identify and exclude inactive contacts from email sends

To help improve deliverability, a filtration process is being created to identify and exclude inactive contacts from receiving your marketing emails.

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How do I get contacts off of a suppression?

The team is working on ways for you to re-engage your contacts with an opt-in.

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Will these contacts be suppressed from receiving both transactional and marketing emails?

These specific changes will only impact your marketing email sends. Learn more about transactional and marketing emails.

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How will this impact deliverability?

Identifying and excluding inactive contacts from receiving your marketing emails will help preserve your email deliverability rates to ensure that more of your emails consistently land in your recipients’ inboxes. Sending emails to inactive contacts (contacts that do not open or click your emails) can be detrimental to your email deliverability and sender reputation. This can put you at risk of being flagged for spam and can result in more emails landing in your recipients’ spam folder. Learn about sender reputation.

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How are inactive contacts defined?

The engineering team is focused on the precise technical definition for inactive contacts and will share an update once the explicit definition and timing of the feature are in place.

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Will contacts be opted out as a result?

Contacts will not be unsubscribed. Contacts that are marked as inactive will be excluded from your email sends to keep your sending reputation high.

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What am I supposed to do with inactive contacts?

Capabilities are being developed to help you safely re-engage and reconfirm opt-in status with your inactive contacts.

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Automated detection of spam traps

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What are spam traps?

Spam traps are email addresses that are created or obtained by spam monitoring organizations to lure and identify senders of unwanted emails. Learn more about spam traps.

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How will I know if my account has violated too many spam traps?

Our support team will reach out to Heroes who run the risk of too frequently violating spam traps with specific remediation steps.

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Operational enhancements for transactional emails

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What actual work is being done to enhance and protect transactional emails?

The multiple types of transactional emails sent on your behalf are being distinguished, and improved transactional sending domain management is being introduced.

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How does this benefit me?

This will provide a better architecture and protection for your transactional emails to ensure that your most critical messages reach your recipients.

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