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<item><title>What is a catch-all email domain?</title><link>https://askravn.com/blog/what-is-a-catch-all-email-domain</link><guid>https://askravn.com/blog/what-is-a-catch-all-email-domain</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A catch-all domain accepts mail for any address, real or not, so no verifier can prove a mailbox exists there. Here is how to spot and handle them.</description></item>
<item><title>How email verification works</title><link>https://askravn.com/blog/how-email-verification-works</link><guid>https://askravn.com/blog/how-email-verification-works</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Email verification checks syntax, DNS and MX records, then asks the mail server about the mailbox without sending. Here is each step and its limits.</description></item>
<item><title>How email finders work</title><link>https://askravn.com/blog/how-email-finders-work</link><guid>https://askravn.com/blog/how-email-finders-work</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Email finders guess addresses from a name and company using known patterns like first.last, then verify each guess. Here is how, and what confidence means.</description></item>
<item><title>Connect Claude to contact data with MCP</title><link>https://askravn.com/blog/connect-claude-to-contact-data-mcp</link><guid>https://askravn.com/blog/connect-claude-to-contact-data-mcp</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>MCP lets Claude call outside tools. Here is what remote and local MCP servers are, how OAuth sign-in works, and how to add Ravn to Claude.</description></item>
<item><title>Email bounce rate: a practical guide</title><link>https://askravn.com/blog/email-bounce-rate-guide</link><guid>https://askravn.com/blog/email-bounce-rate-guide</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>What hard and soft bounces are, why they damage sender reputation, and a simple clean-before-send routine that keeps your bounce rate down.</description></item>
<item><title>Hashed email audiences explained</title><link>https://askravn.com/blog/hashed-email-audiences-explained</link><guid>https://askravn.com/blog/hashed-email-audiences-explained</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>How SHA-256 hashed customer lists work for Meta and Google, the normalisation rules, why hashing is not anonymisation, and how to build one locally.</description></item>
<item><title>B2B contact data compliance basics</title><link>https://askravn.com/blog/b2b-contact-data-compliance</link><guid>https://askravn.com/blog/b2b-contact-data-compliance</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>CAN-SPAM, CASL, GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, data broker rules and FCRA limits explained in plain language for teams that use B2B contact data.</description></item>
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