Suppression Lists Are Live
Migrating to a new MAP without bringing your suppression lists with you is how you torch your domain reputation on day one. Suppression Lists in Paminga import your unsubscribe, hard bounce, and GDPR consent statuses straight into the platform — so you keep honoring every opt-out, bounce, and consent decision your contacts have already made.
This isn't glamorous, but it's the difference between a clean cutover and a deliverability incident.
If you've ever switched email platforms, you know the drill. Export the suppression lists from your old tool. Import them into the new one. Hope nothing breaks. Paminga's Suppression Lists are designed to make that import boring on purpose.
Three Statuses Paminga Honors
There are three suppression statuses that matter when you move:
- Unsubscribe / Opt-Out — never email this person marketing again
- Hard Bounces — this address can't receive mail
- Privacy Consent — GDPR (or equivalent) decisions about whether you can contact this person at all
Each maps to a standard Paminga field on every Contact:
- Unsubscribed Contact
- Bounced Contact
- GDPR Consent Granted
Set the value, and Paminga's send-time machinery does the rest. Suppressed contacts don't get marketing email — full stop.
The Migration Path
Two steps. That's it.
1. Pull Your Suppression Lists into a CSV
Most third-party platforms let you export all three lists in one shot. Some make you export each one separately. Either way, the result is a spreadsheet with:
- An email address column
- One column per suppression status you're bringing over (unsubscribe / bounce / consent)
- Any additional standard or custom fields you'd like populated in the same import
The column names don't matter. You'll map them to Paminga fields in step two.
2. Run a Normal Contact Import
Suppression list import uses Paminga's standard Contact Import. Set the values of Unsubscribed Contact, Bounced Contact, and GDPR Consent Granted to TRUE or FALSE as needed in your CSV, map them in the importer, and run it.
That's the whole migration.
Once It's In, You Can Always See It
Paminga gives you sortable, searchable, exportable tables for the contacts in each status:
Combine those with the Segment Builder and you can slice them however you need — by source, account, custom field, anything else.
Why This Matters
ESPs and inbox providers grade you on the people you mail. Mailing one person who already unsubscribed is a small mistake. Mailing thousands of them — because you forgot to migrate the suppression list — is a fast track to the spam folder.
❌ Don't go live on Paminga without your suppression lists imported.
✅ Do treat the suppression import as a Day 1 gate. Nothing else ships until that's done.
Get Started
- Export your unsubscribe, bounce, and GDPR consent lists from your current platform — one CSV is fine
- Open Paminga's Contact Import and map your columns to Unsubscribed Contact, Bounced Contact, and GDPR Consent Granted
- Run the import — then spot-check the bounced, unsubscribed, and sunsetted DataGrids
Read the Suppression Lists docs for the full migration walkthrough.
