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Error with Email Waterfall: Positive Outcome Showing Own Email - Bug or User Fix?

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Hi! Seems that there is an error with my email waterfall. It shows my own email as a positive outcome. Is this a bug or is this something I have to fix on my end?

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    Angelo D.
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    https://app.clay.com/workspaces/60394/tables/t_PKboIyfn3HFb/views/gv_TLcEL7VtFiYe

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    Clay Team
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    Hey, thanks for reaching out!

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    Here's an explanation of what may be going on: The waterfall gives you the option to add a validation provider to check results from each email finder. When the validation tool determines the email is invalid, the next email finder tries to find a new one, but if it finds the same email as the previous column it won't try to validate it again because it already tried to validate once before, and this could result in no final output because none were valid.We automatically hide validation columns helping keep tables clean and that's why it's not evident at first glance. Let me know if you still have any questions though!Example and explanation: https://www.loom.com/share/e79acd92841a4706b1710c4ce1bddaa4