Email types supported by DirectMail
Triggered emails: Emails triggered by events, such as registration or transaction notifications, password retrieval emails, system alarms, or other system notification emails.
Batch emails: Subscription emails sent to members, such as product promotions, customer care emails, or periodical news and updates.
Note:
Alibaba Cloud only allows sending commercial emails permitted by the recipients. The source of the recipient addresses must be the member registration information, and the email content must be subscribed to by the recipients explicitly. Alibaba Cloud does not allow unauthorized sending of emails or spam emails.
Carefully read the DirectMail terms of service section of the Alibaba Cloud International Website Product Terms of Service, before you use the DirectMail service.
Credit rating rules
DirectMail establishes a dynamic credit rating system based on the email delivery quality (measures arrival rate, invalid address rate, and spam email rate).
After an Alibaba Cloud account is activated and used to log on, different Aliyun accounts will be assigned to different credit levels according to the Aliyun User Level, and the lowest initial credit is Grade 2. This corresponds to a quota of 2,000 emails/day. The highest credit grade is 10, which corresponds to a quota of 500,000 emails/day. The credit grade is adjusted up or down on a weekly basis.
Credit grades
The credit grade and daily/monthly quota relationship is shown in the following table. If the following quota options do not meet your requirements, open a ticket to request an adjustment.
Credit grade | Daily quota (emails) | Monthly quota (emails) |
|---|---|---|
Grade 1 | 500 | 15,000 |
Grade 2 | 2,000 | 60,000 |
Grade 3 | 5,000 | 150,000 |
Grade 4 | 8,000 | 240,000 |
Grade 5 | 10,000 | 300,000 |
Grade 6 | 20,000 | 600,000 |
Grade 7 | 50,000 | 1,500,000 |
Grade 8 | 100,000 | 3,000,000 |
Grade 9 | 200,000 | 6,000,000 |
Grade 10 | 500,000 | 15,000,000 |
Grading rules
DirectMail evaluates the email delivery quality of Alibaba Cloud users every week. It increases the credit grade of users with a high delivery quality, and decreases the credit grade of users with a poor delivery quality. The rules are as follows:
Your credit grade and daily quota will be increased, if the number of e-mails sent is more than 300, the daily activity reaches or approaches the full quota higher than 70% of the daily quota), the invalid address rate is lower than 5%, the spam rate (including the failed spam email returned from the recipient and reported spam email) is lower than 2.5%, and the success rate is higher than 92%.
Your credit grade and daily quota will be decreased If you have data at least three days a week and the average daily mail volume is more than 300, the invalid address rate is higher than 9%, or the spam rate is higher than 10%, or the success rate is lower than 65%.
Note: DirectMail retains the right to adjust the aforementioned rules and values according to actual system situations.
Account ban rules
Freeze the account from sending outgoing emails
Frozen accounts can log on to the DirectMail console, but they cannot use DirectMail to send emails.
In the following conditions, the account is frozen:
The arrival quality on a single day is too low. the number of outgoing mail is more than 300, the invalid address rate is higher than 11%,or the spam rate is higher than 15%, or the arrival rate is 0.
A Grade 1 account is further downgraded.
An account can be unfrozen once. You must open a support ticket to unfreeze the account.
You can view your user status on the
DirectMail console overview page DirectMail console overview page
.
Ban the account
Banned accounts cannot log on to the DirectMail console and they cannot use DirectMail to send emails.
DirectMail will ban the account if the account is detected sending emails including but not limited to the following types:
Phishing, fraud, or virus-infected emails.
Emails that are suspected of being involved in overregistration.
Emails that receive complaints from third parties due to a large number of spam emails being sent, that damage the reputation of DirectMail, or that have other adverse impacts.
Account bans take effect immediately and are permanent (that is, banned accounts cannot be re-entered into the system).
Note: DirectMail retains the right to adjust the aforementioned rules and values according to actual system situations.
Set the credit grade ceiling
The default highest credit grade is 10.