# Broken email addresses

When browsing the platform, you see a lot of email addresses from [members](/event/planning/members.md), [list attendees](/event/accreditation/lists/forms/attendees.md), [company email addresses](https://docs.eventication.com/company/features/email-addresses), ... Some of those might not be valid after some time.

An email address might

* be cancelled
* have a full inbox
* have a typo
* reject our platform emails
* have their user mark one of our email as spam
* etc.

The platform will add an indication that an email address is unusable.

* <img src="/files/m34RqmPNg7buNri9FGxZ" alt="" data-size="line"> A spam complaint is a manual action from the user, they clicked the button to mark an email as spam. This email address will be blocked and can **never** be used on our platform again.
* <img src="/files/pXAXxhcSwZGbuN23gotZ" alt="" data-size="line"> A temporary unavailability of an email address. This might have a couple of reasons like DNS error, full mailbox, ...
* <img src="/files/v6zmlbng0CrmEUmnw6s5" alt="" data-size="line"> The user has manually deactivated their email address.
* <img src="/files/SjjWPC34lFftW5J0HXba" alt="" data-size="line"> An unknown reason and not reachable.
* <img src="/files/UHBwDuasXPTVLZc9bvSl" alt="" data-size="line"> The email address doesn't exist, might be a typo.

Only a ***temp bounce*** can be reactivated by a registered user. Next time they log in they will be asked to resolve the problem and reactivate it.

All other reasons are unsolvable by registered users. Next time they log in they will be forced to add and verify another email address.

Moderators can change email addresses of list forms and attendees to resolve the problems. Member email addresses can **not** be changed by a moderator, only by the member (user).

## Resources

* [Information about Spam](/event/misc/spam.md)


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