Inbox Expo is back, and they're bringing the excitement to Austin TX, May 21-23. Known as one of the top events in the email marketing world, Inbox Expo 2025 is where email …
Hey! It's Al Iverson here and I hope you'll allow me to share a quick "thank you" for reading the Spam Resource blog and email newsletter throughout 2024. I rea…
Just remember, no matter what anybody might tell you, yes, Die Hard is a christmas movie .
Spam fighters and email administrators of a certain age are likely to remember the bad old days of "formmail" spam . I've talked about formmail before, but if you …
Last week for my Valimail "Ask Al" video series, I interviewed Andrew Barrett as Spamhaus. Following up on a prior video where the topic was blocklists (with Alison Go…
Have you ever run into the SMTP bounce message "too old"? Perhaps with a status code of 602? Here's what that means! This isn't an SMTP rejection code enshrined…
The latest version of Apple's mobile operating system was released on December 11th and now I am able to experience the updated features of Apple Mail first-hand. Here's …
Hot off the press! Well, not really. Courtesy of the RAND Corporation , here's a guide (from 1985) entitled Toward an Ethics and Etiquette for Electronic Mail , authored by N…
Today in "Fun with Data," I present to you a link to a downloadable list containing the top Yahoo Mail email domains . Why would you need this? Maybe you run some certa…
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is the lingua franca used by mail servers to communicate with each other, in the process of sending and receiving email messages. Here's…
Bounces (also called Non-Delivery Reports /NDRs or SMTP rejections) happen when you attempt to send email to a recipient and that attempt fails, typically because the recipient&#…
Romanian mail server solution Axigen very recently added support for Brand Indicators for Message Identification ( BIMI ) sender logos: "Build trust through visibility. Ax…
For my most recent Valimail "Ask Al" video, I had a bit of fun chatting with expert deliverability consultant Alison Gootee on the topic of blocklists . The question I …
If you're of a certain age (that would be the second time this week I've used that phrase, ugh), perhaps you, too, purchased the debut album from Madchester-adjacent band…
In certain email clients and webmail providers, like Gmail, the mailbox provider utilizes the list-unsubscribe header to offer up an in-app "unsubscribe" button that s…
I saw somebody asking about CAN-SPAM on one of the email industry Slack groups recently and it reminds me that not everybody knows what it is. New people enter our industry ever…
Tis the season for tips on how to drag your way out of the dreaded promo tab. Gmail has had tabs for a good long time now (since 2013), and with Apple jumping on board the tab (c…
Every time John Mulaney hosts SNL, the episode includes a silly skit about some sort of NYC neighborhood grubbiness that somehow turns into a Broadway Musical. I wholeheartedly a…
For last week's Tuesday Tip , I shared my top five recommendations for DKIM best practices. Mostly (hopefully) easy things you can implement in your DKIM consideration, or nu…
Journalism matters. Whether or not the important journalistic endeavors once done by newspapers continue is an open question today. The economics of the free press are such that …
The blog-o-verse is all a twitter because very recently Android Authority discovered what may be new functionality coming for Gmail users : Email aliases, under the banner of &qu…
