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How campaigns send, and when they pause

Sending hours, spreading across mailboxes, slow starts, mailbox health, and what pauses a campaign.

Once a campaign is launched, mailzy:

  • sends only inside the days and hours you chose, in the campaign's time zone (or each lead's own, if you switch that on);
  • spreads the work across your mailboxes: each new lead goes from your healthiest mailbox that has sent least today;
  • keeps each lead's follow-ups in the same email thread, from the same mailbox;
  • stops the sequence for anyone who replies;
  • spreads each mailbox's day evenly across your sending hours (on for new campaigns, under Settings, Pace), so 30 a day in a 9-to-5 window go out about every 16 minutes.

New mailboxes start slowly

A mailbox starts at 5 campaign emails a day and adds 5 for each day it sends, up to its limit, so its volume never jumps. Launch names any mailbox still ramping up, so a slow first week is expected.

Mailbox health

Each mailbox is healthy, on watch or at risk, from its bounces, spam placement, warm-up results and other signals. A mailbox on watch sends at half speed; one at risk rests from campaigns and comes back gradually once it recovers. Its new leads move to your other mailboxes.

When a campaign slows or pauses by itself

  • Bounce Guard: pauses the campaign if more than 5% of its emails bounce, once 200 or more have gone out.
  • Opt-outs: if unsubscribes and "remove me" replies pass 2% of its last 200 emails, it slows to half its pace and tells you; at 4% it pauses. It speeds up again by itself, a step a day, as fewer people opt out.

mailzy may also pause sending if a campaign's bounces or unsubscribes are far above normal, to protect everyone's deliverability. You'll see the reason; contact support to resume.

Updated November 1, 2026. Still stuck? Ask on the chat in the corner: a real person answers.

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