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Contact Statuses

What each contact status means and how it affects outreach.

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Contact Status Values

StatusDescriptionCan Receive Emails?
ACTIVEDefault status. Contact is eligible for outreach.Yes
UNQUALIFIEDContact has been marked as not a good fit.Yes (unless also flagged Do Not Contact)
BOUNCEDPrevious emails to this contact have bounced.No — automatically excluded.
UNSUBSCRIBEDContact has opted out via an unsubscribe link.No — automatically excluded.
DO_NOT_CONTACTManually flagged to never receive emails.No — automatically excluded.

Do Not Contact Flag

In addition to the status field, contacts have a separate 'doNotContact' boolean flag. When this is true, the contact is excluded from all campaign enrollments regardless of their status. You can toggle this from the contact detail page.

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