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March 13, 2015
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Unsubscribes / Invalids Across Duplicates

  • March 13, 2015
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Hi Community.

Does anybody know... where our database has pesky duplicates, and we mark one email like email@domain.com as either unsubscribed or invalid, will that unsubscribed or invalid automatically go across all other leads where email = email@domain.com ?

Thanks for the help.
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Josh_Hill13
Level 10
March 13, 2015
The value will not be moved over to the other record.

If the subscribed lead qualifies for a campaign, it is likely to receive the email...at least that's what I have seen, although I think Marketo may have fixed that. To be sure, you should test it on two records you own.

Now, there is a master table of unsubscribes so if both leads were deleted and one came back, it would be unsubscribed.
 
Jep_Castelein2
Level 10
March 13, 2015
"Unsubscribed" will propagate to other records with the same email address. This is part of the durable unsubscribe feature. Other attributes like Email Invalid, Marketing Suspended and Black Listed will not be propagated. 
March 13, 2015
Thanks Josh, thanks Jep. Is there something we can do to set the functionality to propagate Email Invalid across all duplicates? We want to track Email Invalid and Unsubscribe separately, but would like the Email Invalid to use that same Unsubscribe functionality.
Jep_Castelein2
Level 10
March 13, 2015
Propagating data value changes to fields other than "Unsubscribed" to duplicates can only be done via the API. For example, whenever "Email Invalid" changes, you could use a Webhook to call a custom script that uses the API to search for dupes and also set those to "Email Invalid". 
March 13, 2015

Jep, can you provide documentation for that setup?

Thanks

Jep_Castelein2
Level 10
March 13, 2015
sorry, no docs available