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title: "Prevent Accidental Sendout to Certain Recipients"
slug: "prevent-accidental-sendout-to-certain-recipients"
updated: 2025-12-19T13:57:09Z
published: 2025-12-19T13:57:09Z
canonical: "docs.mapp.com/prevent-accidental-sendout-to-certain-recipients"
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# Prevent Accidental Sendout to Certain Recipients

## Goal

Prevent messages from being sent to specific recipients by adding a personalization rule that suppresses sendout.

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## Background information

You can prevent sendout to specific recipients by inserting a personalization rule into a message, template, or group. The rule suppresses sendout for the recipients who match the rule criteria.

> [!NOTE]
> This personalization rule always suppresses the sendout of the entire message to the specified recipients, even if you insert it in only one text field or one CMS paragraph.

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## Procedure

1. Open the message, template, or group where you want to insert the rule.
2. Select any text field where you want to place the rule.
3. Define a personalization rule that identifies the recipients based on their attributes.
4. If you are adding the rule to a message, insert it anywhere within the message text (see *Insert a personalization*).
5. If you are adding the rule to a group, copy the code from the personalization wizard and paste it under the **Sendout Options** tab in the message header or footer.
6. Inside the personalization tags, insert the command `<ec:skiprecipient/>`.

The personalization can also be integrated into a CMS template.

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## Example

You want to prevent non-German-speaking recipients from receiving messages created with a German-language CMS template. Each German-speaking recipient has the value “German” in the `Language` attribute.

Use the following rule:

```plaintext
<%InsertIf expression="${((user.CustomAttribute['language']!='german'))}" id="NonGerman"%> <ec:skiprecipient/>
<%/InsertIf%>
```

## Related

- [Creating a Personalization Rule](/create-a-personalization-rule.md)