Email deliverability
Email deliverability audit before moving platforms
Before migrating email platforms, preserve audience relationships, preferences, authentication, templates, and workflow logic. Test real messages and exclusions before transferring normal activity.
A migration can lose important context even when the address file imports successfully.
Inventory the current state
Record senders, segments, suppression, automations, and operational owners.
Configure the new sender
Use current provider instructions and verify authentication and message identity.
Run controlled acceptance tests
Check links, personalization, replies, opt-outs, and representative automation paths.
A practical example
A fictional migration test catches an opted-out contact mistakenly marked active. The import mapping is corrected before the live campaign.
A decision checkpoint
Keep a cutover checklist with a responsible owner for each dependency. Authentication, suppression, forms, automations, and reply routes may be managed by different people. Confirming only that the new platform can send a test message leaves several important customer and operational paths unverified.
A mistake to avoid
Moving only addresses and names can discard essential preference and history data.
How to assess the result
Review failures and inappropriate eligibility changes after cutover, with a clear rollback or pause plan.
Put the work in context
Deliverability concerns whether appropriate messages reach recipients successfully and are treated as wanted. Authentication, accurate identity, audience expectations, preference handling, and recipient response work together.
Use your provider’s current configuration instructions and test real message headers. Do not copy arbitrary DNS records or treat authentication as permission to send unwanted messages. Investigate evidence before changing infrastructure.
A common question
Should old automations remain active during migration?
Coordinate the transition deliberately to avoid duplicate or conflicting sends.
Related reading
- Email deliverability checklist for small businesses
- DMARC explained: alignment, monitoring, and policy
- B2B prospecting for small businesses: a practical plan
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References and further reading
The references below support relevant platform definitions and requirements. The planning workflows and labeled examples are PRSPCT editorial guidance.