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Webhook Event

email.complained

Fires when a recipient marks your email as spam. The provider's complaint notification is verified, the address is suppressed immediately, and the feedback type and provider are sent to your endpoint.

Complaint Handling

Feedback loops via the provider
Complaints arrive as provider notifications whose signature PostFrame verifies before acting
Automatic suppression
The complaining recipient is immediately added to your suppression list — no manual action needed
Complaint-rate pause
Your complaint rate over 24 hours is checked against a threshold (0.1% by default); above it, sending pauses
Tags for attribution
The email's tags ride on every event so you can attribute the complaint to a kind of send
Payload Fields
recipient
Who complained
complaint_feedback_type
The feedback type the mailbox provider reported, e.g. abuse
provider
Which provider relayed the complaint
tags
The email's tags, for attribution. Every event also carries data.email_id, message_id, from, to, subject, status, tags and created_at
Questions

Common questions, straight answers.

What is in the email.complained payload?

The common fields — email_id, message_id, from, to, subject, status, tags, created_at — plus complaint_feedback_type (for example abuse) and the provider name.

How do I verify the webhook came from PostFrame?

Every delivery carries an X-PostFrame-Signature header of the form v1=<hex>. It is an HMAC-SHA256 of "<timestamp>.<body>" using the endpoint's signing secret, which you can rotate from the dashboard at any time.

What happens if my endpoint is down?

PostFrame retries five times with exponential backoff — 10, 20, 40, 80 and 160 seconds — and records every attempt, with the HTTP status and timing, in the endpoint's delivery log.

Can I try the endpoint before real traffic arrives?

Yes. Each webhook endpoint has a Test action that sends a sample event to your URL. Emails sent in test mode never dispatch webhooks, so your integration tests do not fire production hooks.

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