Hey, Al! I was wondering if you could provide some guidance about SPF record format. Is it better to list the exact IP(s) in the SPF record? How about using the SPF dash (-all), …
Over on the Kickbox blog , my colleague Jennifer Nespola Lantz talks about sending domains and what you need to think about if you want to share domains between multiple email p…
It's always good to hear about growth of the good kind of spam. Hormel seems to be doing very well during these crazy times. From CNBC : “That’s incredible. We’ve had to ann…
Ask Al: We're a restaurant that just opened. We signed up for an email service provider (ESP) platform and we're looking to buy email lists to get started. Where should w…
I had a customer ask me yesterday, why is their ESP trying to force them to implement CAPTCHA on their signup forms? They're not spammers. Well, unfortunately, it's usual…
SocketLabs’ Brian Godiksen and Campaign Monitor’s Travis Hazlewood joined forces in this excellent blog post to explain what can go wrong when you use a subdomain (under a domai…
I can't tell if this article from Joe Queenan for the Wall Street Journal (paywall; sorry) is a joke or not. Relevant excerpt: "Just one example [of legitimate email go…
Per notification on the Mailop mailing list on November 24, 2021, "Tucows / OpenSRS is executing an upgrade that will result in new SMTP outbound IP addresses being used wi…
Back in November, Spamhaus reported on how somebody managed to send a bunch of forged email through real FBI email servers . Brian Krebs broke down how it happened : The email re…
Hey! I know that people find the ISP domain guides useful, so I thought I'd fire up the blog machine to share info about our friends at American telecommunications company C…
