Spam Resource: All Things Deliverability

Neil Kumaran and Sam Lugani from Google recently shared staggering statistics regarding the amount of bad stuff that gets aimed at Gmail users daily : "Every day, Gmail blocks more than 100 million phishing emails. During the last week, we saw 18 million daily malware and …

What? This seems new. Brad Gurley talks about this over on his Delivery Counts blog . He says the tabs that show up include "Focused Inbox, Microsoft’s 'Priority Inbox' clone, along with Promotions, Social, and Newsletters." Find more details and screenshots h…

With so many grocery store shelves running bare during the pandemic, it looks as though people are turning to Spam (the good and salty kind). "The packaged pork product that is Spam has never been more popular," reports the Minneapolis Star-Tribune . Looking for reci…

You want the country to open up again? Be careful not to let your haste allow you to fall into the astroturf-driven fake news websites, or even worse, get tricked into giving your personal information out to bad actors.

Do you block email signup attempts from role accounts? If not, I think you should consider it. What's a role account, you might ask? It's an email that has a username part (the part to the left of the @ sign) that is commonly reserved for either a system function or a…

In my ongoing quest to share info about additional email deliverability testing and monitoring vendors, I've stumbled across this press release from email validation platform ZeroBounce . They say: "The ZeroBounce Inbox Placement Tester gives senders an overview of the…

What is AMP for Email? Where did it come from, who supports it, what do you do with it, what's its current state, and what does the future likely hold? Caity O'Connor, Campaign Specialist for Bounteous answers most of these questions in what I believe to be the best ove…

Thierry writes: "For the past 3 days I have been identified by Spamhaus as a spammer, I guess, as I get error 554 when sending to domains that they filter. As you can see I have a mail.com address. "The only change in my recent email activity is that for the past 10…

Here's a very simple and straightforward explanation of how " Organizations like the WHO could prevent domain spoofing, but many don’t ," by Joss Fong and Cleo Abram for Recode . If you know about DMARC, you already know what's going on here, but it's stil…