Spam Resource: All Things Deliverability

Verizon announced today that they are buying (most of) Yahoo for 4.8 billion dollars in cash. Back in 2015, they purchased AOL for 4.4 billion dollars. This means that three different email receiving platforms are now owned by one entity: Verizon. It's hard to saay what b…

If you work the abuse desk for an email service provider, you've undoubtably gotten spam reports from angry Spamcop users who think that your ESP, your employer, is "refusing" Spamcop reports. Truth be told, Spamcop disallows reports to be sent to email service p…

Periodically I create a virgin Gmail account and sign it up for something, to see what other kind of stuff might end up in the inbox. On February 22, 2010, I clicked on a single "free ipad" co-reg marketing ad, and left the checkboxes checked. I watched the mail comin…

Word to the Wise's Laura Atkins is quoted in this article from Wired, " Mailchimp Sends a Billion Email a Day. That's the Easy Part ." It's not a bad primer on Email Reputation 101, and why you can't just shovel spam at ISPs and except them to take it.…

I've been asked this question pretty regularly: How do I tell the world that a certain domain of mine isn't valid for sending email? What about typo domains, bad domains? How can they configure things to tell the world that no legitimate mail should have this domain in …