Keep your agent's mail out of spam traps

Short summary

A practical guide to keeping AI agent-sent email out of spam traps using Nylas. Spam traps don't bounce — they silently accept mail while tanking your domain reputation. The defense is behavioral: validate recipients before sending, honor complaints via webhooks, and use application-scoped suppression Lists and Rules to block sends to untrusted addresses at the platform edge.

• •Spam traps silently accept mail without bouncing, damaging domain reputation
• •Defense requires behavioral discipline: validate recipients, honor complaints, age out inactive addresses
• •Nylas Lists and Rules provide platform-level suppression that agents cannot bypass

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