Managing Mailtrap contacts

Overview

Before generating API request bodies: check the Contacts OpenAPI spec for current field names, required parameters, and nested structures.

Contacts are the marketing database: lists, segments, custom fields, and imports for campaign audiences and related workflows. The Contacts API automates create/update and can feed CRM or CDP sync (your code, or tools like Zapier, Make, n8n — see Import contacts).

Suppressions (hard bounces, spam complaints, unsubscribes on the sending side) live in the sending product and block delivery for those addresses on your streams. That is applied separately from marketing filters (segments, list membership, consent flags) that decide who is eligible for campaigns. For sending-side blocks, see Suppressions and skill sending-emails.

Related skills: authorizing-api-requests (tokens, env vars, account_id resolution), sending-emails (live send paths).

When to use

• Programmatic contact management (create, update, bulk import)
• Sync with CRMs or data warehouses
• Contact list cleanup and CSV import
• Updating contacts with custom fields or firing custom events for automations
• Segments and custom fields for audience building