Spam Resource: All Things Deliverability
I'm Al Iverson, and I've been working in email technology for a good long while now. My areas of expertise? Email deliverability, SPF + DKIM + DMARC email authentication, email marketing best practices, dealing with blocklists, stopping spam and more. This blog (which now includes an email newsletter) began in 2001, and here we are, more than 1500 articles and over 4 million page views later. I hope you find this resource useful and thank you for reading! Contact me here: frenchfries3@spamresource.com.
Who hosts what mail? MBP Spotlight is the series here at Spam Resource where I’ll share ranking data for the top mailbox providers (including B2B) based on where they fall in th…
Tara Natanson, manager of ISP relations for email service provider Constant Contact, is a friend that I've known for more years than I can remember. And like me, she's ma…
What the heck is solarmora.com ? Have you seen this domain show up in your email lists or customer database? I recently noticed this domain showing up in the DMARC reporting conf…
In April, the Australian Communications and Media Authority reported that eyewear manufacturer and retailer Luxottica "has paid a $1,512,500 penalty for sending more than 2…
Wot is this thing? Why, it's Lorde covering the Talking Heads , and it's an absolutely delightful time waster if you're looking for a bit of fun this Friday. There&#…
Who hosts what mail? MBP Spotlight is the series here at Spam Resource where I’ll share ranking data for the top mailbox providers (including B2B) based on where they fall in t…
Here’s an update to something I last answered a couple of years ago: Hey, Al! I was wondering if you could provide some guidance about SPF record format. Is it better to list th…
This may not be super scientific, but it is something I'm going to have fun with nonetheless. Let's take the last thirteen days worth of spam sent to spamtrap addresses i…
If you're trying to send email using an email server hosted on an IP address not expected to be running a mail server, your attempts to send mail to Gmail users is likely to …
I am delighted to announce that I'll be participating in the "How Should ESPs Report Opens in Age of Prefetching" panel at the Email Sender and Provider Coalition (…
Here's a new and unique question that I was just asked: What about DMARC at the sub-subdomain level, multiple levels deep? If I have a DMARC record for my subdomain e.spamres…
As part of their previously-announced intention to disable Less Secure Access (LSA) support , Google recently sent out another email notification warning that eventually, Google…