What action options does Valid Email Checker offer for AWeber? (Tag / Unsubscribe / Delete)

When you pick an AWeber list and switch to Clean List Automatically in the Valid Email Checker modal, you get three actions per result category. The dropdown labels are Keep, Unsubscribe, and Delete. The category rows (Invalid, Disposable, Catch-all, Unknown, Risky) are the same as every other integration. The AWeber-specific part is how each action lands inside your AWeber account.

How each action behaves in AWeber

• Keep — VEC sends no write call to AWeber. The subscriber stays put. Their tags, custom fields, and follow-up sequence position are unchanged. This is the safe choice when you want results in your VEC Uploads & Results report without touching production.
• Unsubscribe — VEC calls the AWeber API to flip the subscriber status to Unsubscribed for the list you verified. Their custom fields, signup source, and historical broadcast opens stay on the record. They simply stop receiving any future broadcasts or follow-ups on that list.
• Delete — VEC removes the subscriber from the verified list. AWeber treats a Delete as a hard removal — the subscriber row goes away, custom fields included. If the subscriber existed only on that list, the contact effectively disappears from the account.

Default settings

VEC keeps the conservative defaults across every integration. The two unambiguous categories are enabled, the rest disabled, so a first-time cleanup never silently mutates a healthy chunk of subscribers.

Override any default in the modal — the Action dropdown next to each category lets you swap Keep, Unsubscribe, or Delete on the fly. The Use Recommended Settings link snaps the panel back to defaults whenever you want.

What AWeber preserves on Unsubscribe

• Custom fields stay attached to the subscriber row.
• Tags remain. AWeber tags survive unsubscribe and can be used later for re-engagement or analytics segments.
• Signup metadata (signup form, IP, date) is preserved. Compliance-conscious accounts often need this audit trail intact.
• Broadcast and follow-up engagement history is kept. AWeber dashboards still show the historical opens and clicks.

Delete wipes all of the above for that list. AWeber does not offer a built-in restore, so the safe default for Disposable is to leave it on Delete only after you have confirmed your earlier runs flag the right addresses. Use the list selection guide to pick a small test list first.

The Risky category in practice

Risky bundles three engine statuses: risky, spamtrap, and role_account. The honest move is to enable Risky and set the action to Unsubscribe. Spam traps in particular ruin AWeber deliverability faster than anything else — unsubscribing them protects your sender reputation without losing the audit trail.