Email forwarding is a huge pain in the rear end. Various smart people have various, differing opinions on why. My opinion is that we can thank spammers for screwing things up. Ever since the fir…
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Google has very recently added new diagnostic details to its DMARC aggregate reports, and they're a big help for troubleshooting. Instead of digging through scattered email l…
Here's a cool tool that a colleague at Valimail created recently, and if you care about protecting against people spoofing your emails through lookalike domains, I think you…
You thought you did everything right. You dutifully exported your SVG logo from Adobe Illustrator, you converted it to the tiny-ps format variant of SVG using one of the conversi…
Microsoft recently joined the "top four" mailbox providers (aka "MAGY," Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Yahoo) with updated authentication and email hygiene sta…
It's byline time! Thank you to both Manufacturing.net and Total Retail for giving me the opportunity to talk to their audiences about DMARC adoption rates and the real-worl…
In my latest Valimail Ask Al Video , I walk through four specific email authentication failure scenarios, things that could trip you up when sending email to Microsoft recipients…
In light of all the chatter around the new Microsoft sender requirements , I’ve started to capture and catalog the various questions I’m getting from senders as they work toward …
It's been a light week as far as me posting things on Spam Resource. The reason for that? I've been so busy with the release of Valimail's 2025 Disinformation and Ma…
More than one recorded video this week, huh? My apologies; I’m traveling this week and time to create content has been cut a bit short. Also, I’m admittedly quite proud of everyt…
If you're seeing SPF alignment failures when using an email service provider platform, don’t worry! This is such a common point of confusion among senders (and it even came u…
Did you know that the latest version of the PCI (Payment Card Industry) Data Security Standard references DMARC? But it wasn't quite clear to me if DMARC is specifically requ…
Hey, a common question I've been seeing and hearing a lot lately is one related to the topic of how to deal with SPF alignment for alias domains in Google Workspace. An alias…
Webinar alert! Coming up on February 19th, I'll be hosting a webinar, along with Ed Fisher from Microsoft, and we'll talk about: How does DMARC work and why is it importa…
Do you want to help protect and improve the email ecosystem? Well, you're in luck! Because for my most recent Valimail "Ask Al" video , I sat down with rock star de…
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…
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 …
Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI) is a cool protocol that allows senders to publish a logo to be displayed along with their email messages in supported email cli…
