Spam Resource: All Things Deliverability

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 offered up treats like SPAM Fudge, SPAMbalaya, and -- good lord -- a SPAM-eating contest? Read all about it here . Be sure to drop me a l…

As expected, AOL announced yesterday that the MX records for their domains are being updated: As AOL and Yahoo come together under the OATH umbrella, we will merge the mail infrastructure serving our consumer brands. As a first step, starting this week, the majority of AOL…

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 stuff. There's talk of a vulnerability out there relating to PDFs (source in German, but Google translate worked well) and users are…

Remember how I said that I thought 2018 would be the year of consolidation ? First you had the Microsoft platform consolidation, the merging of their Office 365 and Hotmail platforms. A lot of senders are still dealing with issues around that transition. Now we're gett…

At least one mailing list operator on Mailop is reporting that he's receiving mail from something called BitBounce. It sounds like some combination of crypto-currency based "pay to send email" thing (remember Hashcash ? Or is this more like e-postage ?) where you …

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has signed an agreement with Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. The two groups pledge to work together to "combat unsolicited commercial electronic messages." It sounds like t…

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 have an A record ? No. We're getting a server failure response or server not found response. Does the domain have an MX record ? No.…

Slate reports that popular email service provider Mailchimp plans to phase out TinyLetter , the neat simple newsletter service they have owned since 2011. It sounds like people are jumping the gun on freaking out, though. Mailchimp says that things will change eventually  but t…

I mentioned recently that Google has implemented a feature wherein they'll suggest to "Inbox by Gmail" users that the user may want to unsubscribe from communication from a sender under certain circumstances. Turns out Yahoo Mail does something similar. Tom Sathe…

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 deliverability this year? Here's three concerns that are on my mind for 2018: Continuing platform consolidation. Microsoft started…