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SMTPUTF8 Errors and Bad Encoding: A Story

Has this ever happened to you? Because it just happened to me! In theory, I should be on top of this sort of thing, because I've been writing scripts and code to generate email messages since the late 1990s. But in practice, I sometimes take coding shortcuts that can have unintended consequences. And here's an example of that causing me to trip over my own two feet. How Spam Resource…
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Nerd break: QP PSA from JWZ

If you've ever gotten down and dirty, deep into the guts of email technology, you know what Quoted-Printable is. If not, be informed that it is a type of content coding quite often used when building and sending email messages. It's more-or-less human readable, definit…

Email subject line encoding, decoded

Finally! It clicks for me, I now understand  how you encode fancy stuff in the subject line. For years, I'd just paste accented or extended-ASCII text into Gmail to have it create the encoded version for me, but I've never really stopped to look at what it was creating …

⛄ Put a snowman in your subject line ⛄

I'm not going to lie; I think it's a bit silly. But, I get asked about this pretty darn regularly: How can I put symbols in my subject line? Well, it's kind of  easy. First, you have to know what symbol you want to use, then you just need to know what the right bit …