Spam Resource: All Things Deliverability

Editor's note: Spam Resource is more-or-less on a break this week, which makes for a great opportunity for me to share a guest post by John Peters, Deliverability Specialist for Campaign Monitor . Take it away, John! During the busy email season the global volume of emails …

You'll remember that recently I explained how 1Password now has its own "hide my email" feature (with a bit of help from Fastmail), for those who may not be into using the Apple version of the functionality. Well, Mozilla wants you to remember that they've g…

I hope everyone has a happy and safe Thanksgiving Holiday. Maybe you've got a long weekend ahead or perhaps you'll need to be up and ready to provide deliverability support for those Black Friday email campaigns. Either way, I hope things go smoothly and that you have a…

Validity's Mathieu Girol has announced that Telecom Italia will now be offering an ISP Feedback Loop through the Validity Universal FBL service . If you manage feedback loops for an ESP or email sending platform, you'll want to go sign up for this ASAP! The domains thi…

Katherine Skiba for AARP reports how in just one particular month in 2021, five hundred (!) different consumer brands were hit by phishing attacks -- not just Sam's Club! And phishing attacks and email scams are big money. "Though in third place, [the FTC says that] i…

Do you use Zimbra? Zimbra Collaboration, formerly known as the Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) before 2019, is an open-source collaborative software suite that includes an email server and a web client. L. Mark Stone from Zimbra partner Mission Critical Email has put togethe…

From The DRIP : More great content from Lucy Mazalon . This time around, she details what Salesforce Pardot does to help users deal with non-human interactions, aka bot and security device clicks and activity. Metrics Guard and Visitor Filters being two key Pardot features that…

I've  blogged about using OpenDKIM with Postfix , having myself run the two together for a quite a number of years now. I've set up enough servers from scratch to have compiled my own setup guide. You'd find it cryptic and confusing, so I won't share it. But wha…

From our friends at Spamhaus via Twitter today (Saturday, November 13th), here's a warning about fraudulent US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) emails that are sending from IP addresses actually used by the FBI. "We have been made aware of "scary" email…

I'm saddened to find that pumpkin spice spam didn't seem to be available this year, but if you're looking for a spammy meal in the spirit of the season, this recipe from Caroline Choe of the Today show might just do the trick . Cornbread Dressing with Spam and Sun-D…

The end of an era! Do you remember your first BlackBerry? I sure do, that big blue blob of a device with a fantastic keyboard and SSH that worked inside the work firewall (shh, don't tell anyone) and was so easily integrated into work email that it hurt. (Sorry, T-Mobile S…

Hey, if you're wondering who the heck I am, the fine folks at Kickbox just published a Q&A between myself and my new (to me) colleague Jennifer Nespola Lantz. Click on over to the Kickbox blog to check it out .  And if you're a weirdo who likes time travel, below th…

DMARC is not a magic bullet that shoots your mail straight to the inbox. But it does two things well and these two things are (or should be) important to email senders, marketers and IT professionals alike: It allows you to monitor for email authentication failures and complian…

Yahoo announced a shutdown of Yahoo Mail in China (yahoo.com.cn and yahoo.cn) to take place back in 2015. In 2019, the domains seemed to be resurrected , but they’ve since gone dead again, as the MX records for each domain point at nothing. And since Yahoo just announced th…

You'll recall me warning recently that using Spamhaus data to protect your mail server is a bad idea if you're using open or public DNS resolvers . TL;DR? Spamhaus is worried about too much traffic via public channels but blocking is implemented in a way that makes it …

How do I use OpenDKIM with multiple domain names on a single postfix server? That's a question I myself had when I first set up my current VPS to host my current email system. So I searched around a bit. I found  this guide , but it's kind of a pain in the rear. Too muc…

Looking for guidance on how to create your BIMI logo file? Valimail has a pretty good guide that explains the requirements and they also explain what to keep in mind when creating your BIMI graphic SVG file. Starting with: