January 2018

You've got just over two weeks until it's time for Isleton, California's Spam Festival. The February 18th affair has in the past...

Wednesday, January 31, 2018

As expected, AOL announced yesterday that the MX records for their domains are being updated: As AOL and Yahoo come together under the OA...

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

ClamAV is a popular open source anti-virus engine, that among other things, is popularly used to scan emails on Linux/Unix systems for bad ...

Friday, January 26, 2018

Remember how I said that I thought 2018 would be the year of consolidation ? First you had the Microsoft platform consolidation, the mergi...

Friday, January 19, 2018

At least one mailing list operator on Mailop is reporting that he's receiving mail from something called BitBounce. It sounds like some ...

Thursday, January 18, 2018

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has signed an agreement with Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and...

Wednesday, January 17, 2018

A reader wrote in asking me if anybody was home at the email domain alltel.net . I performed a handful of checks to see: Does the domain...

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Slate reports that popular email service provider Mailchimp plans to phase out TinyLetter , the neat simple newsletter service they have own...

Friday, January 05, 2018

I mentioned recently that Google has implemented a feature wherein they'll suggest to "Inbox by Gmail" users that the user ma...

Thursday, January 04, 2018

It's the first working day of the new year. What do you think are going to be some of the challenges we face in the realms of email and ...

Tuesday, January 02, 2018