As the annus horribilis that is 2020 comes to a close, allow me to share the top five most popular Spam Resource posts from this year. Without further ado, they are:
Google's Gmail platform appears to have been throwing intermittent false "user unknown" bounces for just about the past 24 hours. The raw bounce would suggest that …
Millions of inappropriate and racist spam emails sent to Seminole County middle school, high school students
From WFTV: "Seminole County Public Schools officials said they are trying to figure out how millions of inappropriate emails were sent to students. [...] One email starts of…
Validity's Guy Hanson recently posted an excellent overview of " How to Please Gmail " over on the Validity blog. It's good guidance--not entirely dissimilar to…
Email developer Andris Reinman has created a cool email authentication library for Node.js that'll help you check a whole bunch of stuff relating to different email authentic…
Return Path (now Validity ) manages a number of ISP feedback loops for ISPs all around the world. They've got a signup and management interface for this "Universal Feedb…
Per notification on the Mailop mailing list, Vodafone Germany (the German subsidiary of the global telecoms provider Vodafone) is bringing live new email sending infrastructure…
Yes, some people do it, and yes, for some people, it works fine. But..... If you're standing up a new server and it has an IPv6 IP address, and it has no sending reputation, …
John Jetmore has updated his super cool "email swiss army knife" tool, Swaks . It now comes with .netrc support (that's a file where you can store login credentials…
Gmail just announced that they're about to offer up the ability to disable personalization of various features across their web apps. It appears to allow users to reclaim a m…
Brian Krebs reports on the identification of the body of Davis Wolfgang Hawke, "a prolific spammer and neo-Nazi," and adds that "It might be difficult to fathom w…
If you don't remember, AMP for Email provides the ability to utilize dynamic content functionality in the email inbox. Bounteous explains : "With AMP, functionality prev…
Congrats, Atlanta! You're #1 in ... Business Email Compromise fraud. Andy Peters of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution explains : "Atlanta has earned a dubious title in th…
2020 has been a hell of a year so far, hasn't it? The COVID-19 pandemic, medical (physical and mental) health challenges, working from home, economic issues and more. And the…
Hey, maybe it's a bit "inside baseball," but I find it pretty interesting to learn about spammers targeting patent applicants with scam emails , courtesy of Tim Lin…
This is a real bummer. CNN reports that COVID-19 contact tracing efforts are being hindered by non-specific Caller ID and that some folks being called believe the calls are scam…
Spamtraps are special types of email addresses. There are varying definitions, but the two most common types are email addresses that were never valid that get spam (usually typo…
Giang Thi Huong Tran of Tilleke & Gibbins explains updated spam laws in Vietnam over on Lexology: "On August 14, 2020, the government of Vietnam issued Decree 91/2020/N…
With a bit of help from an online tutorial , I've figured out how to relay outbound mail through Gmail. (Of course, that means that I'm sending mail out through a specifi…
Sales of Hormel's deliciously salty SPAM are up in the US during this challenging time, thanks to thrifty shoppers like you and me. Are you running out of ideas of how to coo…
Once upon a time I asked if AMP dynamic content functionality was going to be " the next big thing " as far as email is concerned. Google's got support for it in Gm…
Today's guest post comes from Travis Murray. Travis is a Deliverability Engineer based in Canada. He has spent the last five years guiding clients and helping his peers with …
Do you know about Swaks? Maybe not! It is perhaps not very widely known, but it is an amazingly useful tool. Swaks , created and maintained by John Jetmore , is billed as a "…
IP warming is the process by which, when you start sending from a mail server on a new IP address, you build up a good sending reputation by limiting your sending to small amount…
Engadget says that Edison Software's new email service OnMail has "two headline features ... 'accept sender' and anti-tracking technology." Sounds like an…
Direct Deliverability's Karen Balle has excellent advice for those trying to fix deliverability issues. Her quick tip helps you quickly boost engagement (and thus reputation…
Lauren Meyer from Kickbox has put together this extremely informative and detailed feedback from ten different deliverability experts on how Gmail tabs affect senders and what se…
A simple tip for you today: If you ever switch up your email address, especially if you decide to change which service you use for your personal email inbox, you might want to co…
If you need simple DNSBL blocking list (or blacklist) tracking, here's a couple of services that both seem to work well: Debouncer and RBL Tracker . Both are free if monitor…
DKIM ( DomainKeys Identified Mail ) is a great process for authenticating email messages. It uses a public-private key pair to cryptographically sign an email message to ensure t…
Every email server has an IP address. It's sort of like the phone number for a server. It's often a stable identifier. Each IP address traces back to a company who owns a…
Keep in mind that Microsoft has two separate mail systems: OLC (Outlook Consumer) which you might call Hotmail, and corporate mail hosting, the mail systems associated with their…
I don't think there's actually a conspiracy to block the political email messages of any certain party. I see no clear data suggesting political bias in spam filtering de…
Check out this list of top ten email/security blogs from November 2010. You know which URLs still resolve? Which ones are clearly still here? Only three of the ten.* Me! Al Ivers…
