September 16th, 2025

Some companies use extra email firewalls (like Barracuda, Mimecast, and other Secure Email Gateways - SEGs) that make them very hard to reach.
Starting today, Instantly will automatically flag those contacts for you when you upload a list ๐
Youโll see SEG labels in your lead table right away. Detection includes:
Barracuda
Mimecast
Proofpoint
Cisco
You can use SEG enrichment via API.
Soon youโll be able to filter contacts in SuperSearch with Waterfall Enrichment (filter by SEG/ESP), before you even add them to your campaigns.
Why it matters:
It helps you avoid sending to leads that almost never reply and can hurt your deliverability.
This is the first of several planned deliverability upgrades:
๐ Next week: Domain Send Limits โ more control to protect your domains.
๐ Coming soon: Manual routing rules to decide how SEGs are handled.
๐ SuperSearch enrichment APIs: Check both SEGs and ESPs for any domain.
Together with deliverability features like filtering out โunlikely to replyโ and "hostile leads", Server & IP Sharding & Rotation, Instantly is now giving you the strongest deliverability toolkit out there.

Check your Leads section โ SEG detection is live and ready to use, no setup needed! ๐