It is Friday, which means you have earned that first sip of your favorite beverage. And that can be an adult beverage, if you like, and if you're old enough, and you're done with work fo…
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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. Ev…
Today's time waster is a training film from 1976, helpfully titled Basic Computer Terms . It features Harry, a frazzled businessman who is about 90 years behind on filling hi…
Last week, yours truly (Al Iverson from Valimail ) was joined by my friend Jennifer Nespola Lantz from Kickbox for a deep dive webinar on Microsoft's new bulk sender requir…
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…
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 …
Sometimes I need a break from all this talk of new sender requirements. So, let's sprinkle in some fun as we head into the weekend, and pause to enjoy another classic Brookly…
With the announcement (and subsequent launch) of Apple Mail's categorization functionality, email marketers have been concerned, wondering how this tab-like organization mec…
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…
You know that I blog about spam. And sometimes about SPAM. I'm a fan of one but not the other. Who wouldn't love something salty that tastes a bit like bacon, and fries u…
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 …
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…
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…
A number of weeks ago I started up a new video series. Every week, I publish a new, short (usually) video on Linkedin and on Valimail’s Youtube page , where I answer questions f…
Where did our little friend, the @ symbol, come from? And why is it on computer keyboards today? It turns out, even if nobody had thought to use it in email, we'd probably st…
