Email deliverability services for cold outbound
Reachly owns the domains, the mailboxes, the warmup and the weekly rotation behind your campaigns. At 30,000 emails a month that is 72 domains and 180 mailboxes, with a third of the pool resting at any time.
Deliverability is part of Reachly's outbound engagement, not sold as a standalone audit. The infrastructure and the copy get decided together.
What do email deliverability services actually cover?
Email deliverability services cover the five workstreams that decide whether a message reaches an inbox: authentication, warmup, sending capacity and rotation, list verification, and monitoring. Reachly runs all five inside the outbound engagement.
| Workstream | What Reachly runs | What breaks without it |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication | SPF, DKIM and DMARC on every sending domain, re-verified after any DNS change. | Unauthenticated mail is filtered before a filter ever reads the copy. |
| Warmup | Four weeks of automated warmup per mailbox before it touches a live campaign. | A cold mailbox at real volume reads as a burst from an unknown sender. |
| Capacity and rotation | Weekly health pull, per-mailbox caps, and roughly 30% of capacity held in reserve. | Volume concentrates, and one reputation problem takes the whole campaign down. |
| List verification | Double verification at send time. Catch-all domains and role addresses dropped. | Hard bounces are the fastest way to lose a domain. |
| Monitoring | Reply rate, warmup score, bounce rate and blacklist checks, reviewed weekly. | You find out placement dropped from the pipeline, four weeks late. |
The mechanics of each one are written up in the email deliverability guide, the SPF, DKIM and DMARC setup and how long a domain needs to warm up.
How is cold outbound deliverability different from marketing email?
Most deliverability providers are built for opt-in marketing lists sending from one established domain. Cold outbound breaks five of those assumptions.
| Opt-in marketing email | Cold outbound | |
|---|---|---|
| Sending identity | One domain and one IP with years of history. | Dozens of fresh domains with no reputation to inherit. |
| Recipient | Subscribed, and has opened something before. | No prior contact, so no engagement signal to lean on. |
| Volume shape | Large sends to a known list on a schedule. | Small daily volume spread thin across many senders. |
| Worst case | A campaign underperforms and you resend. | A domain is blacklisted and it is gone for good. |
| Main lever | Content, cadence and list segmentation. | Infrastructure, and how fast you rotate out of trouble. |
Reachly only runs the second column. For a newsletter or a lifecycle programme, an ESP-side deliverability consulting firm is the better call.
How Reachly spreads 30,000 emails across 72 domains
30 to 50 emails per mailbox per day is the safe ceiling on a warmed domain. Reachly runs about 11, and buys more domains instead of raising the cap.
30,000 a month on 5 domains
200 emails per domain per day. One blacklisting takes a fifth of your sending with it, and there is nothing waiting to replace it.
30,000 a month on 72 domains
Roughly 14 emails per domain per day. A third of the mailbox pool sits warmed and idle, ready to absorb whatever comes out.
Pull health
Every mailbox's reply rate, warmup score and bounce rate come out of Smartlead once a week.
Band by cap
Mailboxes are sorted into daily send caps by how each one is performing that week.
Rest the bottom third
The weakest 33% goes quiet for one to two weeks. No warmup, no sending, no traffic.
Switch on reserve
Warmed mailboxes from the reserve take the volume, so the client's send plan is unchanged.
More on the mechanics in inbox rotation for cold email.
Three numbers pull a mailbox out of rotation
Checked weekly, and whichever trips first wins. Reply rate usually trips first, which is the point of watching it: it moves before the damage is visible anywhere else.
A domain that turns up on a blacklist gets retired, not repaired. Reachly does not run recovery programmes on burned domains, because the time spent arguing with a blocklist costs more than a replacement domain and four weeks of warmup. That decision is why roughly 30% of the sending pool is always sitting idle.
Your own domain never enters the pool. Sending runs on separate domains Reachly buys and operates, so a blacklisting can never touch the address your invoices go out from.
What gets checked before the first email sends?
Ten items. A campaign does not go live until every one of them is signed off.
What does email deliverability cost to run?
Reachly's own line items for one client at 30,000 emails a month, before anyone writes a word of copy.
| Line item | What it buys | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Domains | 72 sending domains. | $900 one-off |
| Mailboxes | 180 mailboxes across those domains. | $640 a month |
| Data and enrichment | 45,000 leads over three months, at about $0.01 all in. | $450 per quarter |
| Email verification | 45,000 verification credits. | $500 per quarter |
| Sequencing software | Smartlead. The base plan is enough. | $50 to $150 a month |
| Running total | Infrastructure only. No operator time, no copy, no list building. | ~$1,100 a month plus $900 to start |
Add the person who runs it and the arithmetic changes shape: a GTM engineer who can build, write and diagnose is $2,500 to $5,000 a month. Reachly's outbound retainer starts at $3,500 a month and covers the infrastructure above, the operator time and the campaign work. Full breakdown on the outbound lead generation page.
How do you tell a deliverability problem from an offer problem?
Three weeks into a quiet campaign, most agencies rebuild the infrastructure. The checks run in this order instead, because the cheapest answer is usually the first one.
Reachly's own yardstick for a working campaign is one positive reply every 400 to 600 emails sent. See how to fix cold email deliverability and what a normal bounce rate looks like.
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