Spam Resource: All Things Deliverability

Can't beat that headline. UK ISP Virgin Media is having a few problems with its spam filters, reports the Register. Previously hosting user mailboxes on Google-managed systems, the ISP was forced to bring it back in house after Google stopped selling the service to ISPs. A…

Over on the Word to the Wise blog, Laura Atkins explains what happened with that spate of short-term MegaRBL DNSBL listings you may have noticed last week.

Time for a distraction. The Staunton (VA) News Leader reports on the Virginia Military Institute's Spam challenge, wherein chefs are tasked to "create an entree and two sides using only five mystery ingredients and anything from the pantry, which was comprised of items…

Hey, November and December are a big, important time period for online retailers. Lots of people always ask me what they should do to minimize the risk of deliverability problems during this period. Keeping in time that ISP email volumes are up (way up), ISP staff managing unbl…

Google announced an updated version of the Gmail email client for iOS devices today . The big new enhancements seem to be "undo," "swipe to archive or delete" and a faster search function. There does not appear to be any support at all for list-unsubscribe f…

Just a few more days until the election, and then everybody can calm down and get back to their normal lives, I hope. Every time I read the Washington Post, I see another article about email servers or weird DNS server activity. It's tiring. I don't have the strength or…

Founded in 2003, Barracuda Networks provides anti-spam and security-related hardware and services and was believed to have more than 150,000 clients as of 2014. Looks like if Barracuda hosts your spam filtering or mail services, you might not be receiving email right now. Multi…