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2026-08-15 22:14
I Ran 50 Emails Through AI Agents. 12 SMTP Bounces Hit.
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The 50-email experiment
On August 12, I handed an AI agent a CSV of fifty email addresses and an SMTP tool. Thirty-eight minutes later, twelve of them had bounced.
I wasn't trying to break anything. I was testing whether a local agent could handle a simple outreach task end-to-end: read a list, draft a short note, send it. The model I used ...
