Frequently Asked Questions

  • 1What is Purelist?

    Email Answers provides a secure, real-time email list cleaning service web application that will scrub and clean your existing email address database. Our email list hygiene service keeps your email lists up to date by comparing, identifying and purging bad, invalid, dead, seed, honeypot, duplicate, BOT and spam seed email addresses and unwanted domains from your list.

  • 2How does Purelist Work?

    Purelist offers a simple, cost effective and efficient way to ensure that your email data is clean. Everything is securely processed through our online web application in your personal Purelist account. Simply setup an account, purchase credits and start cleaning your email lists in a matter of minutes!

  • 3How long will it take to receive my cleaned data once I upload it into Purelist?

    Purelist is a real-time, email processing platform. Depending on the size of your list and how many jobs are in front of you, normal turnaround time is only a matter of seconds or minutes, depending on the size of your list. For example, a list of 50,000 email addresses will take approximately 25 seconds, while a list of 1 million email addresses will take approximately 4 minutes to run.

  • 4What will my list look like when Purelist has finished cleaning it?

    You will receive back 2 lists. The first list will be all clean and usable email addresses. The second list will be all scrubbed email addresses we recommend you do not send emails to. Each list will contain email addresses only. You will also be able to view and download a detailed report for your Purelist order.

  • 5What do you do with my data after it has been cleaned and validated?

    We store all customer data on our secure, compliant internal storage server. After 5 days this data is truncated and destroyed. We save the report for viewing anytime through your personal account details page.

  • 6Is my data safe from being used by anyone other than me, the list owner?

    Yes, we use a PCI Compliant workflow with management and control of your data limited to our online processing system from start to finish. All customer provided email data is removed and deleted from our system within 120 hours of processing.

  • 7How can I be sure my data won’t be used by anyone other than me?

    There is a simple solution to be 100% positive your data is safe and unused by anyone else. Seed your data. Create a few new email addresses with ISPs such as; AOL, Yahoo, Gmail, etc. and add these new email addresses to the list you provide us and upload for cleaning. If you ever get an email to any of these newly created email addresses, you will know there is a problem. Make sure you never use these email addresses for anything else, as this will undermine their intended use.

  • 8If my database is collected and owned by me, why should I bother to clean it?

    Cleaning your email database or email list will protect your IP reputation; enable you to maintain good deliverability and keep your white listings in place. It will allow you to get better inbox deliverability with your email campaigns and avoid being blocked, black listed or shut down by your ISP or ESP.

  • 9Does cleaning an email list really help deliverability of my newsletters and marketing emails?

    Absolutely, there is no question that sending to clean and deliverable emails, free from spam seeds, dead emails, BOTS or complainers will improve your IP reputation and allow you to gain better inbox deliverability rates.

  • 10What if my email list is in Excel with other data attached?

    If you have your email list in excel with additional data such as first name, last name, address, city, state, phone number, etc., Purelist will not allow your list to be uploaded for cleaning. Simply highlight and copy the column of email addresses and paste them into a text file (like Notepad or Textpad). All email data must be uploaded as a text file, one email address per line. No other formats are accepted.

  • 11Can you clean any email address?

    Yes, we can clean any email address from anywhere in the world with Purelist.

  • 12What data file types can I upload and do you accept for Purelist email list cleaning?

    We will only accept text based email lists. Your file should be saved as a text file; (.txt). It should be formatted with one email per line.

  • 13Can my list be solely comprised of emails from a single domain, like aol.com or hotmail.com?

    Yes, we can clean any domain using Purelist - even lists containing 100% of a single domain are OK to upload and process through the system.

  • 14Where can I see customer reviews of your service?

    You can view aggregate customer reviews of our email list cleaning and validation service.

  • 15Do you have any Case Studies I can review?

    Yes we do. We have recently published 2 new case studies for ADP and SMTP

  • 16Will my Purelist account ever expire?

    No, once an account is created, it will remain active in our system as long as there are funds deposited and credits in the account. All funds deposited into your Purelist account are non-refundable. You can use your credits at any time and they will never expire.

  • 17Can I be refunded money for any credits that I do not use in my account?

    No, credits cannot be converted back into cash. Credits have no monetary value, other than they can be used for email list cleaning with Purelist. All deposited funds are non-refundable.

  • 18I don’t remember my login email address or my password. What should I do?

    If you forgot the email address you used to sign up for a Purelist account, please send an email to orders@emailanswers.com with your full name, company name, telephone number and physical address. An Email Answers representative will assist you in recovering the email address you used to sign up for an account. You can also search your inbox for the confirmation email we sent you when you created your account. If you forgot your password, you can reset it from the login page or use this “Forgot your password” link.

  • 19What is the difference between Purelist and your other email list cleaning and validation service?

    The difference is with Purelist, we compare your email data to our 100 million+ stored records and remove any harmful email data and domains from your list in real-time. Email Answers - email list cleaning and validation service adds a final step of validating every single email address without ever sending an email to the end user. 

  • 20Additional Questions?

     You can send us an email at info@emailanswers.com anytime.