2024: The Year in Review: A different top 5 from 2024
Here's more context related to what folks were reading on the Spam Resource blog in 2024. This top five is a bit different -- the previous post highlighted the top five most read things I published in 2024. This list is, instead, the top five most viewed posts from 2024, but they these posts were published sometime prior to 2024.
Even if they were originally published in 2021, 2022, or 2023, they're still chock-full of useful deliverability guidance and folks are finding them when Googling how to solve various deliverability problems.
Help, I'm blocked at Yahoo Mail and I don't know what to do! A very common cry for help nowadays, given the updated sender requirements put in place by Yahoo and Google in 2024. This will get an update soon, as it would be good to explicitly call out the updated sender requirements, recent revamp of the CFL (Complaint Feedback Loop) and more. Stay tuned.
People love lists of email domains -- finding it very handy to know what domains constitute Yahoo Mail, Microsoft Outlook.com/Hotmail, and so forth. I've got an update for this coming very soon (the update for Yahoo Mail is complete, Microsoft will be posted soon, and then I'll go back and reformat it into a new MAGY domain list). Coming soon!
I suspect that this was the beginning of Google enforcing enhanced sender requirements. Or, more specifically, yet another step up in their spam filtering efforts, highlighting that deliverability requirements evolve over time and folks who were operating "close to the edge" previously now found themselves blocked at Gmail, when they wouldn't have been in years past.
A common source of confusion out in deliverability land is whether or not Xfinity cable internet users have email addresses at the domain comcast.com or comcast.net. (Spoiler: it's comcast.net.) People search for this one all the time, and it has resulted in this post about it here on Spam Resource being the most read thing on Spam Resource for all of 2024.
Thank you for joining me on this journey through a bit of recent history!
Here's more context related to what folks were reading on the Spam Resource blog in 2024. This top five is a bit different -- the previous post highlighted the top five most read things I published in 2024. This list is, instead, the top five most viewed posts from 2024, but they these posts were published sometime prior to 2024.
Number 5: ISP Deliverability Guide: Yahoo/AOL (Updated for 2022)
Help, I'm blocked at Yahoo Mail and I don't know what to do! A very common cry for help nowadays, given the updated sender requirements put in place by Yahoo and Google in 2024. This will get an update soon, as it would be good to explicitly call out the updated sender requirements, recent revamp of the CFL (Complaint Feedback Loop) and more. Stay tuned.
Number 4: Reference: MAGY (Microsoft, AOL, Gmail, Yahoo) Email Domains
People love lists of email domains -- finding it very handy to know what domains constitute Yahoo Mail, Microsoft Outlook.com/Hotmail, and so forth. I've got an update for this coming very soon (the update for Yahoo Mail is complete, Microsoft will be posted soon, and then I'll go back and reformat it into a new MAGY domain list). Coming soon!
Number 3: XNND (now Wombatmail) is still here for all your DNS needs
Wombatmail (previously XNND) is my website with various tools, spamtrap data, examples of BIMI logos, MX domain ranking data, MX/DMARC/BIMI lookups, and more. Why not check it out today?
Number 2: Gmail: New spam-related rejections and what you need to know
I suspect that this was the beginning of Google enforcing enhanced sender requirements. Or, more specifically, yet another step up in their spam filtering efforts, highlighting that deliverability requirements evolve over time and folks who were operating "close to the edge" previously now found themselves blocked at Gmail, when they wouldn't have been in years past.
Number 1: Comcast email addresses: .com or .net?
A common source of confusion out in deliverability land is whether or not Xfinity cable internet users have email addresses at the domain comcast.com or comcast.net. (Spoiler: it's comcast.net.) People search for this one all the time, and it has resulted in this post about it here on Spam Resource being the most read thing on Spam Resource for all of 2024.
Thank you for joining me on this journey through a bit of recent history!
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