Spam Resource: All Things Deliverability

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 Iverson, Spam Resource . Laura Atkins,  Word to the Wise . Mickey Chandler, Spamtacular . All three of us…

If you live in the US, maybe you've already heard of the Informed Delivery email service from the USPS (United States Postal Service). It provides you a daily email digest previewing postal mail letters and package information just before they get delivered to you. It help…

Phil Pennock is an email administrator, software engineer and one of the maintainers of the open source Exim MTA (mail transfer agent; aka mail server) and after a recent discussion on the Mailop list, he put together a good list of considerations/best practices for administrat…

BIMI is coming to Gmail! We knew it was coming, and now here we go: the first details of the BIMI pilot at Gmail.

Hey, deliverability monitoring vendors! I know you're out there, and I don't know a lot about many of you. Do you manage a service that does inbox deliverability testing, seedlist testing, inbox monitoring, or similar functionality? Feel free to drop me a line and let m…

Over on The Drip, Lucy Mazalon just published a pretty good article on how to help eliminate spam leads from Pardot. Spam leads or fake leads, garbage entered into signup forms, don't do anybody any good. At best they waste the system's time and inflate your sending nu…

Almost every mailbox provider is going to have a system issue every once in a while. Some more, some less, but everything catches on fire eventually. Some providers are good enough to maintain system status dashboards and uptime status displays to help you understand if that…

Did you receive more spam than usual in your Gmail account at the end of June? Or did you receive more spam IN YOUR INBOX than usual? It might have been due to this. Google just released a root cause analysis of an issue from June 30th, where "Google's email delivery s…

Forwarding email messages automatically can be tricky, as evidenced by recent conversation on the Mailop list. Email forwarding always breaks SPF authentication, and can easily break DKIM authentication if you modify any of the headers (and knowing which headers to stay away f…

If you recall my recent review of the new HEY email service , you'll remember that I wasn't convinced that it was the right email tool for me. Maybe you felt the same way? Maybe not. But if you didn't feel like HEY was the next big thing, BYE might just be the right…

There are useful tools out there that can help you figure out where to send a spam report to. I use the ARIN Regional Internet Registry and abuse.net  nearly every day to look up spam reporting (abuse) contacts for IP addresses and domains. Some folks use SpamCop (which histo…