Spam Resource: All Things Deliverability

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. Vodafone Germany hosts mail for the following domains: arcor.de, arcormail.de, germanynet.de, gno.…

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, you'll find it very hard to get mail reliably delivered to Gmail inboxes. You're starting wi…

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; used by tools like ftp and curl). There's also support for TLS SNI , and it will warn you if d…

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 measure of privacy by telling Google not to parse certain messages or content. Senders take note: the…

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 why, but Hawke may have made a few enemies over the years." Read the article and you'll see…

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 previously relegated to landing pages (such as booking an appointment or even making a purchase) became …

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 the cybercrime world — it’s the No. 1 location in the U.S. for criminals who target business owners, a…

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 there are email challenges to boot. When the COVID-19 crisis landed, every company you've ever hear…