Based on page views, here's what was most popular on Spam Resource throughout 2015. (I'm sensing a theme...) Ask Al: My email address is being used in spam! Email add…
SendGrid's Kirill Popov left a most helpful and timely comment on my previous DMARC record-related post . He writes: "Even if you're *reasonably* sure that you have …
RRVS (the Require-Recipient-Valid-Since Header Field) as documented in RFC 7293 seems like a neat idea. It was designed by Yahoo and Facebook folks with the best of intentions.…
Auto-forwarding mail today is kind of a pain in the butt. If a domain has a p=reject DMARC policy, mail from somebody at that domain likely gets blocked if you try to forward it…
The French ISP Orange is shutting down email service on the domain voila.fr . Service is expected to end on January 15, 2016. At some point after this date, expect any email to …
Chairman and CEO Matt Blumberg just announced that Return Path is now sixteen years old ! Congrats to everyone over at Return Path. That's a long time in the email game. Lots…
I've had a few folks ask recently: "Are the domains yahoo.com.cn and yahoo.cn truly retired?" After all, XNND Domain Intelligence shows them as valid for acceptin…
Here's a common question that I get asked somewhat regularly: "I don't really want to receive or deal with replies to my email messages. Can't I just use a fake …
Not for long, you're not. Looks like Yahoo is testing code on Yahoo! Mail that would disallow AdBlock users from accessing their webmail platform. Read more over at the Consu…
Oracle Marketing Cloud's Kevin Senne reports that Verizon is telling subscribers that verizon.net email addresses unaccessed for 180 days will be deleted. This is yet anothe…
In November, Google indicated that they're working on a warning indicator to be shown inside of Gmail, indicating when an email message was transmitted over an unencrypted c…
The one thing, the absolute most important thing to keep in mind when setting up a DMARC p=reject policy is: You have to know all of the sources of all legitimate, desired mail t…
Various folks have been asking lately if their DKIM key might be "insecure." At least one ISP out there is failing working keys with "verification failed; insecure…
First Yahoo. Then AOL. Recently, additional Yahoo domains. Next up? Gmail. DMARC.org announced today that Gmail will move to publish a more restrictive DMARC policy in 2016. Read…
Want to access your AOL or Outlook.com mail via Yahoo! Mail? Yahoo's got you covered . The deliverability consultant in me wonders exactly how this is accomplished. It might …
You may recall that Yahoo implemented a "p=reject" DMARC policy in April, 2014 for their primary yahoo.com domain name. (And AOL did the same for aol.com shortly afte…
I'm not going to lie; I think it's a bit silly. But, I get asked about this pretty darn regularly: How can I put symbols in my subject line? Well, it's kind of easy.…
Over on the Official Gmail Blog, Google's Sri Harsha Somanchi lets us know that Gmail now offers the ability to "block" unwanted senders . Sri explains that after y…
Spam filtering still happens, but are blacklists where its at? Yet another one dies today , making for 25+ reports of DNSBL death since 2007 logged over on my sister site, DNSBL …
From Brian Krebs comes the story of the fall and rise of internet hosting firm HostWinds . Founder Peter Holden explains how they came to get enticed into hosting spammers, which…
As reported on Slashdot: "[After recent spam filter changes at Gmail, Linux inventor Linus] Torvalds said his own experience [is] that around 30 per cent of the mail in his …
I registered the domain spamresource.com on December 31, 2000 and in the year 2001 first used it as a platform to publish my thoughts and opinions on spam-related topics (hand c…
Electronic Frontier Foundation's Jeremy Malcolm and Mitch Stoltz published an article yesterday quite reasonably expressing concern over a proposal in front of ICANN that wo…
It's been a little over a year since Yahoo and AOL implemented restrictive "p=reject" DMARC policies, saying you essentially aren't allowed to use their domai…
Return Path's Tom Sather explains when it's OK to use a shared IP address . Basically, when your volume is very low. He suggests that the cutoff be 50,000 messages a mont…
Over on her Word to the Wise blog, Laura Atkins shares a wonderful list of links to almost every email service provider's policy prohibiting use of bought lists or purchased…
According to France-based Deliverability monitoring company DeliverNow, French ISPs Orange, SFR, and Laposte.net have deployed a new spam filtering mechanism powered by Vade Ret…
Josh over at Word to the Wise explains that as Microsoft brings live IPv6 support for its Office365/Exchange Online Protection email platforms, they're mandating that all mai…
If you're trying to send mail to subscribers at clear.net or clearwire.net today, you'll notice that all delivery attempts are being rejected, because wireless data pro…
On March 10th, the Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG) published a new version of the Senders BCP (Best Common Practices) document -- a solid overvie…
In 2014, Yahoo and AOL both implemented strict "p=reject" DMARC policies on their primary domains. This presented challenges to both AOL/Yahoo users and various servic…
Ken Magill has the story on initial filings regarding the lawsuit brought by Craig Ames and Robert McGee against Spamhaus in the United Kingdom.
Read all about it over at The Hill. My question is, does this thing have a chance of going anywhere, based on the current gridlock in Congress? I'm doubtful, but we will see.
According to multiple sources , Amazon is starting up a cloud-hosted email service. Called WorkMail, it looks as though it'll be price competitive to similar offerings from…
What is a list-unsusbcribe header, you might ask? It's an email header, typically hidden from the end user, that includes information that allows the MUA (mail user agent; me…
Mickey writes, "I'm being blocked by AHBL. I own a tax and accounting firm. We send out two newsletters per year to our existing clients using an ESP. We give our client…
As reported on TechCrunch and elsewhere, Yahoo's Chinese email service is no more. Warned all the way back in April, current users of the Chinese version of Yahoo! Mail were …
