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How to level up your deliverability: B2B cold email best practices and sending guidelines

Practical deliverability habits for Maildoso: plain-text content, links and tracking, unsubscribe line, warmup and volume, list quality and bounce rate under 2%, B2B-only sending, and what's allowed under our terms.

Deliverability comes down to sending like a real person, to the right audience, and protecting your sender reputation. Maildoso is built for targeted, automated B2B cold email — campaigns to relevant corporate business addresses, for example promoting your SaaS or other business services. Here are the habits that make the biggest difference.

Content and formatting

  • First email: plain text, no links. Plain text (rather than rich HTML with images and buttons) reduces spam signals. Links and booking or file links are fine in follow-ups once the thread exists — on SMTP mailboxes they go through our built-in Global Custom Domain Tracking, so you don't need a third-party tracking domain.

  • Never use open tracking. The tracking pixel is an invisible image, which is a strong spam signal; turn open tracking off for the whole sequence in your sequencer. Click tracking on plain links is acceptable.

  • Keep signatures minimal. Avoid extra domains, links, phone numbers and photos — at volume they become a footprint that filters learn.

  • Avoid spam words — check your copy, signature and unsubscribe text for trigger words.

  • Include an unsubscribe line in the email body. Every email must include a functional unsubscribe link or a clear opt-out sentence in the body. Our sending relay strips List-Unsubscribe / List-Unsubscribe-Post headers on every plan, so a header-based unsubscribe never reaches the recipient — see Does Maildoso support List-Unsubscribe headers?

  • Rotate copy and use spintax. Identical copy sent for weeks gets "footprinted" by filters; if placement drops on a long-running campaign, small rewrites restore it more often than infrastructure changes.

Sending habits

What our terms allow — and what we can't do

  • Allowed: targeted, automated B2B campaigns to verified corporate business addresses that follow the guidelines above. The domain side of compliant sending is covered in What are the best practices for configuring domains?

  • Maildoso doesn't certify the sources of your email lists, the countries of your recipients or your complaint rates, and policy exceptions can't be approved. Make sure your lists are clean and compliant with the regulations that apply to you.

For the complete playbook, read the Maildoso deliverability guide, or book a free Deliverability audit from the top bar of your dashboard.

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