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On Thursday, September 11th, Google announced that Gmail will soon change how the Promotions tab works .  Instead of showing marketing messages in simple chronological order (a &…
Lifecycle subscription management is a key component of deliverability success. And it is a relatively simple process. The broad strokes are: Identify subscribers who are not eng…
It is Friday, which means you have earned that first sip of your favorite beverage. And that can be an adult beverage, if you like, and if you're old enough, and you're d…
Domain registrar GoDaddy has announced that as of April 2025, all new domains registered via them will come with a DMARC record by default, with a p=quarantine policy. In my opi…
On September 25, 2025, the Canadian Email Summit returns for its 6th year, which will take place at St. Paul's Bloor St in Toronto, ON. This full-day event is designed to br…
As reported here and elsewhere , Yahoo has reduced the amount of free storage for Yahoo Mail users. The prior limit, 1 terabyte, is now reduced to 20 gigabytes. Users with a mail…
I want you to do me a favor: If you haven't yet set a profile picture on your Google account, please do so. It's easy to do. Just head over to myaccount.google.com , clic…
When you spin up a Microsoft 365 environment to handle email for your corporate or other organization, the system assigns you a default email domain that looks like something.on…
This one hurts a little. We've all gotten scammy-looking toll payment texts. Most of the time, they're fakes. But one California driver found out the hard way that ignori…
Email forwarding is a huge pain in the rear end. Various smart people have various, differing opinions on why. My opinion is that we can thank spammers for screwing things up. Ev…
Right-leaning political groups in the US have long accused Gmail of unfair left-leaning bias when it comes to spam filtering. As an example, the Republican National Committee all…
Today's time waster is a training film from 1976, helpfully titled Basic Computer Terms . It features Harry, a frazzled businessman who is about 90 years behind on filling hi…
(See new info at end!) Hey, big senders! It's time for another update regarding enhanced sender requirements put forth by a large mailbox provider. This time around, it is Fr…
After I recently blogged about all of the different email render test tools I know about (including Testi@ ), HTML Email Developer David Gutierrez reached out to share somethin…
The Email Sender & Provider Coalition (ESPC) is pleased to announce its upcoming 2025 Fall Meeting, happening Thursday, November 13, 2025 at ArentFox Schiff in Washington, D…