How to verify recipients for an email sequence

Before launching an email sequence, we recommend verifying recipients in the Audience or Leads section to reduce bounce rates and protect your sender reputation.

This guide explains how to verify recipients directly inside an email sequence before launching it.

Why verifying recipients matters

Email statuses can change quickly. An email address that was valid a few weeks ago may now bounce.

Verifying recipients just before launching your email sequence helps you:

Reduce bounce rates
Protect your sending reputation
Improve deliverability
Avoid sending to invalid email addresses

💡Email addresses verified as invalid will automatically be excluded from outreach, even if they have been added to an email sequence.

How to verify recipients in the Audience section

You can verify recipients directly from your email sequence before launching it.

Step 1: Open your sequence's Audience

Go to Sequences.
Open the sequence you’re preparing or start a new one.
Click on the Audience tab.

Step 2: Add recipients to your Audience

Before verifying recipients, make sure they are added to your email sequences’ Audience

If you haven't added any recipients yet, check the following help article on How to add recipients to an email sequence.

Step 3: Check your recipients' verification status

If your Audience list already contains recipients, you’ll see the verification status displayed next to each email address. This allows you to quickly understand whether your list is ready to send or if you should verify some of the emails or all emails first.

When you hover over the verification status, you’ll also see the Verification date, which shows when the email was last checked. This helps you assess how up-to-date the verification is.

Pay special attention to Accept-All emails, marked with a yellow verification status. These addresses cannot be fully verified. To reduce bounce risk, avoid contacting Accept-All domains with a confidence score below 85%.

Learn more on Accept all domains here.

Step 4: Verify email addresses inside the Audience section

You have different options to verify recipients before contacting them. During verification, you will see a loading wheel, and once verification is complete, the status will update automatically. This can take a moment depending on the amount of emails to verify

💡For each email verified, we calculate 0.5 credit. The total verification credit cost will always be displayed.

Learn how to verify your recipients from the Audience section:

Verify all unverified email addresses in bulk

If your list of recipients includes multiple email addresses that haven’t been verified, you’ll see a yellow banner showing the percentage of unverified emails. You can click “Verify all email addresses” to verify them in bulk.

Credit cost will also be displayed.

Verify single recipients

You can click Verify email next to a single recipient to verify individually.

Select recipients to verify

You can select individual, multiple, or all recipients to verify them by checking the box on the left side of each recipient’s row.

If you click the checkbox in the email address column header, you can select all recipients at once. Once selected, simply click on Verify.

Verify while uploading recipients via CSV import

When you choose to import recipients via CSV import, you’ll have the option to verify the email addresses during the import process.

If you select this option, your leads will be verified as soon as they’re added. The cost of the verification will be displayed before you confirm.

👉You can learn more about importing leads here.

Verify your leads in the Leads section before adding them to a sequence

You can add recipients to an email sequence from an existing People leads list. Before adding them to a new or existing sequence, you can verify the leads to ensure their email addresses are valid.

Go to your Leads list.
Select the leads you want to verify (you can also filter by Verification date first, to see leads that haven't been verified for a while).
Once selected, click Verify leads.

We have a helpful article about how to use filters to target specific leads for your email sequence.

💡 Tip: Filter by Verification status = Valid before adding the leads to a sequence, if you want to add only valid leads to your sequence.

To sum things up

Verification costs 0.5 credit per email, and the total cost is always displayed before you confirm.
Verify recipients before launching your sequence to reduce bounce rates and protect your sender reputation.
You can verify emails directly from the Audience tab, from the Leads section, or during CSV import.
Review the verification status and verification date to check how recent the last verification was.
Be cautious with Accept-All emails, especially those with a confidence score below 85%, as they may increase bounce risk.
Invalid email addresses are automatically excluded from outreach, even if they were added to the sequence.

Next steps and helpful articles

Once your recipients are added to your email sequence and are verified, the next step is to draft your sequence content and prepare it for launch.

👉 The next step: compose the content of your email sequence and learn how to use the AI writing assistant to generate your email copy

If you’d like to learn more about managing leads and understanding verification results, these articles may help: