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What Happens When an Email Fails?

Ora has fail-safes to protect your deliverability and keep your campaign running. Here’s how failures are handled and how to fix them.

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Written by Meagan Glenn
Updated this week

How Ora handles failures

If an email fails to send, Ora pauses that task and retries it later.

In most cases, the lead isn’t lost. The email is either:

  • Automatically rescheduled once the issue is resolved

  • Flagged for manual review, especially if the issue needs your action (like reconnecting an inbox)


Common reasons emails fail

1. Inbox disconnected
This is the most common cause. It usually happens because of:

  1. Your email provider’s auth token expires

  2. Security settings (especially in Outlook) block access

What to do:

  1. Go to your Settings → Integrations

  2. Reconnect the affected inbox

  3. Ora will retry any failed sends once the inbox is reconnected


2. Stuck or frozen tasks
Sometimes tasks appear as "Scheduled" but don’t send. This can happen when:

  • An agent was archived, then reactivated

  • You're using OCD mode and never approved previews

What to do:

Open the campaign and check:

  • Is the agent active?

  • Is the correct mode (OCD/LFG/SEP) selected?

  • Are all previews approved (if OCD)?


3. Lead list formatting issues
Emails can silently fail if:

  • A lead is missing an email address

  • Email formatting is invalid

  • The lead doesn’t match the campaign’s target persona

What to do:
Check your uploaded CSV for:

  • A column titled Email or Work Email

  • No empty rows or bad formatting

  • Valid, non-generic emails (avoid info@, sales@, etc.)

  • Leads that match your campaign’s target roles and departments


What not to worry about

Leads receiving multiple emails

Ora includes multiple fail-safes to prevent:

  • Leads from being enrolled in more than one campaign

  • Multiple emails being sent to the same contact in a single day


Still stuck?

If reconnecting the inbox or fixing your CSV doesn’t solve it, reach out to our team at [email protected].


📩 Helpful: include the campaign name and the sender email address you're using.

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