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 an address does not exist, when it does actually exist. Example:
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 off with a racial slur, features a photo of President Donald Trump and has a heading that talks about …
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 the Gmail guidance I myself provide here on Spam Resource . I like to share this to show that diffe…
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 authentication bits. And it allows you to test things that might not have been so easy to test previously (li…
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 Feedback Loop Service" at fbl.returnpath.net . They have just announced that they've added Swiss…
