Best US cell carrier for phone spam protection? T-Mobile.

I'm curious to dig into the methodology here to look for limitations, but so far so good. Money reports on a recent study to compare spam identifying/blocking functionality of the top four US cell carriers. T-Mobile came out on top as far as identifying or blocking Scam/Fr…

Ask Al: Group mail is being blocked, what do I do?

Recently, a reader wrote in with the following question: I host an email group of about 450 people who share a common autoimmune medical condition. I send/receive email through a Gmail account set up in Windows Live Mail on a home PC. My ISP is RCN.  Recently, any emails sent…

Gmail: Filtering mail into folders

Somebody recently asked me how does one set up folders in Gmail, and how does one then filter mail into those filters? Setting up filters and folders (labels) makes Gmail much more usable; makes my very busy email stream much more manageable. Here's how you do it, courtes…

Gmail & B2B Spam

A client recently reminded me of Gmail's yellow bar that explains why a message went to spam. I decided to pull up the last few spams out of my spam folder and check the yellow "why" bar. b2b-leadgen.com:  Why is this message in Spam? It's similar to messages …

AOL/Yahoo Transition Update: AOL DMARC & FBL Reports

AOL Postmaster  Lili Crowley posted an update yesterday to the AOL Postmaster Blog regarding the future of DMARC and FBL reports from the AOL platform. Here's my summary of that information: For DMARC reports: AOL is saying that the MX records for their domains are in …

List-Unsubscribe header: You need it!

Allow me to distill this very insightful article from Word to the Wise down to four simple points: Microsoft wants you to include the list-unsubscribe header. And today, you'll want to use the "mailto" version, not the "http" version. If you don't,…