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mailivery.io ↗Email warm up as a service: automated real conversations that build a sending domain's reputation before campaigns need it.
Mailivery is an email warm up service. It connects to a mailbox and exchanges automated conversations with a network of real inboxes: messages get sent, opened, replied to and pulled out of spam folders. To Gmail and Outlook this traffic reads as normal correspondence, and the sending domain's reputation rises accordingly. Dashboards report placement so problems are visible before a campaign is.
The mechanism matters because mailbox providers score behaviour, not intentions. A new domain, or one that suddenly starts sending in volume, looks like spam whatever the content says. Reputation is built by sustained, positively engaged traffic, which is exactly what a warm up network simulates. It works alongside the standard checklist: SPF, DKIM and DMARC records, gradual volume ramp up, and a clean list.
It is listed here for a simple reason: deliverability is decided before the first real campaign leaves, and warming a domain by hand is slow, repetitive work that a service does better than a person.
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