Hotmail: Twenty years ago this month...
Twenty years ago this month, HoTMaiL was acquired by Microsoft, going on to become MSN Hotmail, er, Windows Live Mail, er, Windows Live Hotm...Read More
Top Five Spam Resource Posts of 2017
Hey, we made it! 2017 is finally drawing to a close! Let's take a moment to review the top five most popular Spam Resource posts this ye...Read More
On the 12th day of Listmas...
Mickey Chandler just posted the 12th and final in his series of "the Days of Listmas" over at Spamtacular . Happy holidays!Read More
LaPoste Now Offering DKIM-based ISP Feedback Loop
A representative of French post office and webmail provider LaPoste announced on LinkedIn yesterday that LaPoste.net now offers support for...Read More
Did anyone recently notice that the Spamhaus XBL just got really big?
Ray from Spamhaus explains why in a new post. Spoiler alert: Looks like the Andromeda botnet and rise of IoT (Internet of Things) spam are ...Read More
Inbox by Gmail will remind you to unsubscribe from unread promo emails
Engadget reports that Gmail's "Inbox by Gmail" web interface and Android app are proactively offering up a suggestion to unsub...Read More
Finding and deciphering email headers
Here's an article from Lifewire (formerly about.com) on how to get at and decipher full email headers . This link is worth saving for la...Read More
Krebs: Phishers Are Upping Their Game. So Should You.
Brian Krebs recently published a most excellent article on the current state of phishing and what you can and should do to try to protect y...Read More
The 12 Days of Listmas
🎵 On the first day of Listmas 🎵 my data showed to me 🎵 something’s causing slow delivery… Over on Spamtacular, Mickey Chandler is ...Read More
Help! I'm blocked at Verizon.net!
Hey! Are you finding your mail rejected when trying to send to verizon.net? Remember that verizon.net email users now have their mail handle...Read More
Vodafone (New Zealand) Email Closure
Vodafone (NZ) is reporting that they have shut down their email service as of November 30, 2017. This affects the following domains: clea...Read More
Holiday Season is Here: What to do
Hey big sender, it's that time of the year again! Lots of companies generate lots of revenue during the run up from about now until Chri...Read More
October 11: Spam in the News
Wondering if government action against spammers still happens? Here's an example from the UK. MediaPost's EmailMarketingDaily report...Read More
HTML Email: JWZ's fault?
One-time Netscape Navigator developer Jamie Zawinski suggests that HTML support in email might have been his fault .Read More
Whoops: iOS 11 Mail Microsoft Issues
If you've upgraded your iPhones to the just-released iOS version 11 and your email is hosted by Microsoft's Outlook.com, Office 365 ...Read More
Full Email Headers
Email message headers have a lot of information in them. Only the tiniest amount of that header information is typically exposed to a recipi...Read More
Hotmail UK MX Change
The MX servers for Hotmail UK changed in DNS overnight. For those who are caching DNS or have hard coded DNS entries, you're going to ru...Read More
Haiku Break
So, what do we do? Deliverability! How? Nobody knows! -- Courtesy of my friend SarahRead More
Finding DMARC when it isn't there?
If you're running a mailing list manager, or dealing with a reply-handling mail system, like many ESPs have in place, you've learned...Read More
16 Years And Counting
LinkedIn just reminded me: Spam Resource is just about sixteen years old, give or take a week or two. After sixteen years (and over 1.6 mill...Read More
DMARC will (not fully) fix it!
Over on the Word to the Wise blog, Laura Atkins raises the concern that in response to the recent "prank" email scandal , email t...Read More
Most federal departments aren’t using DMARC: Wyden
Found on the Sophos Naked Security blog : Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) contacted the US Department of Homeland Security in a July 18 letter...Read More
AOL: Reputation corrected and request denied
Check out the reply I received in response to a recent AOL Whitelist Request submission: Subject: Reputation corrected and request denied...Read More
Text to Image ratios in email
Laura Atkins of Word to the Wise explains: "The text to image ratio is not going to make or break delivery." I've certainly ha...Read More
Verizon Email Transition Update
From Network World, here is an update on the winding down of Verizon's email service, which I previously reported on here . When is the...Read More
New Anti-Phishing Protection in Gmail on Android
Gmail app users on Android, rejoice -- Google just added phishing protection. If you try to click on a link deemed to be problematic, you...Read More
Why list-unsub doesn't let you "opt-down"?
If you're familiar with the "list unsubscribe" functionality, support for which is implemented in Apple's iOS Mail Client,...Read More
Orange UK Email Closure
United Kingdom-based ISP Orange (now part of Everything Everywhere aka EE) has announced that they are shutting down their email service as ...Read More
Senders: What should you do about verizon.net?
As mentioned in a previous post, Verizon recently announced that it is getting out of the email hosting business. Verizon users are being...Read More
Do you care about WHOIS?
There's an effort underway within ICANN where the net result could be that publicly-available domain ownership info is no longer availa...Read More
Verizon Users: Leave, or move to AOL
As reported last May , the Verizon email user transition to AOL continues, with Verizon now announcing that they have decided to " clos...Read More
Password Reset Emails: Best Practices
I've been thinking about best practices for password reset emails lately. Instead of trying to re-invent a wheel that other folks have a...Read More
New Outlook.com/Hotmail IP ranges
Microsoft's Terry Zink announced yesterday on the Mailop list that Microsoft is combining the infrastructure for Outlook.com (Hotmail) ...Read More
AOL User Mike Pence
I usually try to avoid getting too political around these parts, but this one I just can't resist. Turns out, then-Indiana governor...Read More
IBM Patents Out-of-Office Reply functionality
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 9,547,842 to IBM for an "Out-of-office electronic mail messagin...Read More
Guest Post: A Guide to Microsoft SNDS
Deliverability Expert Chris Truitt was kind enough to reach out to me after he noticed my prior post lamenting the lack of guidance on what ...Read More
Sean Spicer and WHOIS
ARS Technica reports on Trump minister of propaganda (I think that's his title) Sean Spicer and how he registered a handful of domains ...Read More
What can SNDS tell you?
Microsoft Hotmail / Outlook.com's SNDS ( Sender Network Data Services ) portal is a useful interface where you register to be able to lo...Read More
The Scunthorpe Problem
Have you heard of the Scunthorpe Problem ? It highlights the side effects associated with trying to filter out profanity. Where it affects m...Read More
What is UCENET?
Formerly known as the London Action Plan, UCENET (Unsolicited Communication Enforcement Network) exists to promote international spam enfor...Read More
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