Patent ID: 8086684

Claim:
A method, comprising the steps of: a) importing a list of email addresses for one or more contacts into one or more software components in a software combination executed on one or more servers communicatively coupled to a network, the one or more contacts stored in a data storage communicatively coupled to the network; b) determining, for each email address in the list of email addresses, if the email address is opted in to receive an email distribution from an administrator of an account associated with a business ID; c) if the email address is opted in, determining if the email address is found in a database of known undeliverable email addresses; d) if email addresses found in the database of known undeliverable email addresses exceeds an amount allowed by one or more bounce limit rules: i) deferring importing the list of email addresses for the one or more contacts; and ii) displaying an alert referring the administrator to an abuse department for review of the account; e) if email addresses found in the database of known undeliverable email addresses does not exceed the amount allowed by the one or more bounce limit rules: i) delivering the email distribution over a specified interval to each email address opted in; and ii) determining whether a plurality of undeliverable emails in the email distribution exceeds the one or more bounce limit rules; f) if the plurality of undeliverable emails exceeds the one or more bounce limit rules: i) delaying delivery of the email distribution; and ii) displaying the alert referring the administrator to the abuse department for review of the account; g) if the plurality of undeliverable emails does not exceed the one or more bounce limit rules, repeating steps e(i)-f(ii) until either the email distribution concludes or the plurality of undeliverable emails exceeds the one or more bounce limit rules.