Spam Resource: All Things Deliverability

A few days ago, a Slashdot user asked , “ Is there a war on small mail servers? ” The admin went on to state that he or she works for a company hosting their own mail server. Their two ISPs (Comcast and Verizon) both block port 25 outbound, and they’re complaining of getting ca…

Box of Meat tipped us to this wonderful post detailing the best practices to keep in mind when creating one or more spam trap addresses or domains. Spam fighters: this is a must read!

Hey, this is cool: According to Engadget , Cloudmark seems to be working on the next frontier of spam filtering: SMS spam. Give it a few years, and something like this will be baked into every provider's infrastructure or handsets. Can't wait. On an unrelated note, I ne…

Do you know Romer? He's just this guy, you know. As he points out over on his WordPress blog , he's been in the anti-spam field for the last decade, doing a little bit of everything. Most lately, he's an engineer for a major anti-spam product. I just noticed a very…

There's somebody sneaky in my Gmail spam folder. Some company I've never heard of, apparently called RESMAIL, keeps showing up there, once or twice a week. The footer always says "RESMAIL - 63 Madison Ave 9th Floor - New York, NY 10016 US." The source IP addre…

Laura Atkins reports on this over on the Word to the Wise blog , and Dennis Dayman covers this for Deliverability.com: Goodmail services are to be wound down on February 8th, 2011. I don't have much to add beyond what they've already said, but I do have a question: Kno…

What permission is: Permission means your potential subscriber initiated the request to sign up for your emails. What permission is not: I got a list of email addresses and I sent everybody a double opt-in request. Don't take my word for it -- ask Spamhaus . "You…