Breaking news! Popular open-source spam filter SpamAssassin version 4.0.0 was just released . Find more information in the release notes here . Kevin A. McGrail, Chair Emeritus, …
Well, Figgy Pudding Spam is a thing that exists, apparently. Laurel Wamsley for National Public Radio explains that this limited edition concoction is apparently so popular, tha…
UW-Green Bay professor Michelle McQuade Dewhirsta turns spam emails into into songs for voice and cello. Wisconsin Public Radio's Jonah Beleckis explains . I don't know h…
Adam Spriggs recently posted a very helpful Salesforce Marketing Cloud tip to his blog, which you'll find here . In it, he guides you through how to use AMPscript to impleme…
DKIM replay attacks are one of the new big things lately, and they work like this: Take a DKIM signed email message, and re-send it to a billion other people. Maybe add another h…
Mike Scarcella, reporting for Reuters : Google has hired law firm Perkins Coie to help defend it against the RNC's spam filtering lawsuit . "While Perkins long has provi…
Google and various news outlets are reporting that Gmail had a significant outage today (Saturday, December 10th). Google reports that as of 4:16 PM UTC (10:16 AM US central ti…
Another week is drawing to a close, and I think that means it's time for another music break. If Katy Perry doesn't make you want to get up and dance, you might be dead i…
Will Easton is an expert email strategist and nonprofit fundraiser, and the webmaster of ethicalemail.org and you should connect with him on LinkedIn . Today's topic? The de…
Rackspace appears to have suffered a security issue related to their Hosted Exchange mailbox environment, starting on December 2nd. You can find more information here , here and…
Email/technology expert Mike Hillyer has put together a list of six very smart email/technology people that were affected by recent layoffs or other job upheaval. The group is a…
It's infographic time! This one breaks down the top 25 mailbox providers in the UK, as measured by this methodology: Any domain in the "top 10 million domains" ( as…
It's been a long week. Let's get weird. The song: "Frontier Psychiatrist" by the Avalanches. I'm not entirely sure what's going on here, but it's a …
You've seen the advice: "Just avoid these 18 spam trigger words and always get to the inbox!" I've been doing this a long time and somebody new pops up with gui…
Thanks to Cyrill Gross from Mailix , we now have first impressions of the new Zoom email client . Note that this is NOT the new "zmail.com" email service -- it'…
Eleven years ago, Laura Atkins of Word to the Wise warned: Using bit.ly to shorten links in your emails will get you blocked . Indeed, Spamhaus made a change back around that ti…
As we wind things down for the long holiday weekend here in the USA, please allow me to say thank you, friends, for reading and subscribing! Please enjoy "Thank You Friends&…
CASL is (literally) “ Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation .” If you’re American, think of it as the Canadian version of CAN-SPAM , the US federal anti-spam law, but with some importan…
A friend warned me of a scenario that could have the potential to freak people out, if misunderstood. It looks like this: This person is using Spamhaus to filter inbound mail. Th…
Challenge/Response is a specific type of email filter. If you use a Challenge/Response (C/R) spam filter to protect yourself from spam, here's what happens: Your email server…
Videoconferencing provider Zoom is getting into the email game. Their new Zoom Mail service will allow users to create their own user accounts using the zmail.com domain, but th…
Blake E. Reid, writing for LAWFLARE breaks down the legal merits of the Republic National Committee's lawsuit against Google over Gmail's spam filtering. Starting with, …
Back in the day, these used to be called Postmaster Pages (or Postmaster Sites ) and they are where email senders would go to look for help when having deliverability issues. Won…
I've blogged about the Friendly From before, just basically so ( and you can find that here ), but now, Jennifer Nespola Lantz takes it to the next level. Over at the Kickbox…
European telecommunications provider Orange has shut down email services in Slovakia. This means that the email domain orangemail.sk is no more. Orange notified users here tha…
US telecommunications provider Hargray offers broadband internet "throughout the Lowcountry region of South Carolina and the Savannah region of Georgia," according to …
Dear Al: How much does your email address matter when it comes to getting mail through, i.e. what about addresses like mycompany.guru or mycompany.live? In those domains, the &qu…
For today's fun Friday share, let's get in the spirit of the season with this comprehensive breakdown of common Halloween memes, courtesy of Wired's Amelia Tait . We&…
Multiple folks over on the Mailop list are reporting that Microsoft OLC (Outlook.com/Hotmail/etc)'s IPv6 inbound mail servers are deferring inbound mail delivery attempts wi…
Wondering what domain names mailbox provider Fastmail uses for their email service? You'll never get an exact list, as customers can point their own domains at the service, b…
Thanks to a new feature in iOS 16, it's pretty easy for you to schedule an email you're writing to be automatically sent in the future at a certain time. Check out the ho…
What's up with that Gmail political email pilot program, previously revealed by Axios and discussed by my friends Jennifer Nespola Lantz and T ravis Murray ( and me , and …
Did you know? There is a dog named Spam and he's dressed up as a pirate for Halloween and he's up for adoption, courtesy of the Hallie Hill Animal Sanctuary in Hollywood,…
The email domain love.com was previously owned by AOL, then Verizon, then Yahoo, as the email services and corporate oversight changed for the AOL/Yahoo email services. From the…
Estonian webhost and mailbox provider Zone now supports BIMI and will display a sender logo in Zone Webmail, if they're able to. VMC is required. Find more details here . Doi…
Over on the Oracle Blog , Clint Kaiser, Daniel Deneweth, Jason Witt note that we’re at the one year anniversary of the launch of the Apple Mail Privacy Protection functionality. …
Do you want to be kind to your friendly neighborhood mailbox provider? Of course you do! Who doesn't want to "do a solid" favor for a giant, faceless corporation?? …
It's that time again! Are you living for the weekend? Me, too. And the O'Jays have just the perfect song for us. See you on the east side...or maybe the west side, if you…
Click here for a more recent BIMI status update . Normally now would be a good time for me to provide a write up on the current status of mailbox provider support for BIMI, but m…
