Discrepancy Between Delivered and Opened Emails in Delivery Summary Report

Description

Environment

  • Adobe Campaign

  • Adobe Campaign Standard

Issue/Symptoms

In some scenarios, the customer delivery summary report may show that fewer emails have been delivered than opened. This can be confusing and cause concern for users. However, this issue can be easily explained.

Resolution

  • You can check the number of emails marked as bounced in the delivery summary report to understand the extent of the issue.
  • You can also ask the customer to consult with Field Services/Adobe PS consulting via their CSM if they need more custom reporting based on their requirements.

Note: Please note that we incorrectly flip the status of a message to “Failed” when an inbound email is processed for it (in this case a spam complaint). That message was in fact delivered, so the status should be ‘Sent’ and counted as a delivered email, but this does not happen. In this scenario, Adobe Campaign is incorrectly resetting the status to ‘Failed’. This is scheduled to be fixed in ACS.

Cause

Suppose a mail was sent, and the recipient opened the email, clicked on a link, and then marked it as SPAM. In such a scenario, the feedback loop will make the delivery count zero. This means that the number of delivered emails will be counted as zero (broad logs), whereas the number of unique clicks will be more than zero (tracking logs). As a result, the report will show fewer emails delivered than opened.

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