Swaks has long been my favorite quick and dirty tool for poking at mail servers. It's powerful, flexible, scriptable, and it doesn't hide anything behind a shiny GUI. I find it perfect f…
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Are you seeing this bounce message when trying to send mail to Yahoo subscribers? 451 Message temporarily deferred due to unresolvable RFC.5321 from domain; see https://postmaste…
I've got just enough time for a quick post today, to share with you this very useful DMARC Dictionary put together by the fine folks at dmarcian . Check it out ! And since t…
Check out this list of top ten email/security blogs from November 2010. You know which URLs still resolve? Which ones are clearly still here? Only three of the ten.* Me! Al Ivers…
Allow me to distill this very insightful article from Word to the Wise down to four simple points: Microsoft wants you to include the list-unsubscribe header. And today, you'…
Remember how I said that I thought 2018 would be the year of consolidation ? First you had the Microsoft platform consolidation, the merging of their Office 365 and Hotmail pla…
Word to the Wise's Laura Atkins, like me, often gets asked about words to avoid in subject lines. Is it OK to use the word "free" in a subject line? I read that cau…
Josh over at Word to the Wise explains that as Microsoft brings live IPv6 support for its Office365/Exchange Online Protection email platforms, they're mandating that all mai…
Steve Atkins of Word to the Wise has posted a very interesting story , detailing a little bit of spam history from just over ten years ago. According to Steve, a gentleman who us…
Laura Atkins beat me to it, writing about this new MarketingSherpa case study wherein a company decimated their list and actually grew revenue. Go read her taken on it over at th…
ARF (Abuse Reporting Format), a simple specification that enables senders of email abuse reports (like, spam complaints and feedback loop reports, for example) to easily and appr…
Laura Atkins writes today about the newly discovered settlement between 'email marketer' E360 and Comcast: "Today, only weeks before the trial date, a settlement agr…
The context: Over on Laura Atkins' Word to the Wise blog , she talks about the coming changes. The coming storm, if you will. How ISPs are fed up with sender practices. She r…
