Showing posts with the label zapplefeat

MacOS Sonoma drops support for legacy mail plug-ins

Apple's latest computer operating system, macOS Sonoma , launches today, September 26th. With that launch comes a loss of email-related functionality. The Apple Mail app in Sonoma no longer has support for legacy mail plug-ins . Plug-ins included tools like Mailbutler, Spam…

Apple: Private Relay vs Private Relay vs Hide my Email

Time to clarify a bit of confusion that I know people are having with Apple's private/hiding methodology for email privacy: Private Relay versus Private Relay versus Hide my Email. Apple's got a couple ways that they let an end subscriber hide their email address from a…

More Apple privacy changes coming

When Apple's iOS 17 and MacOS Sonoma come to the public later this fall, there will be new privacy improvements, as there always are. This time around, Apple's looking to block some tracking methodology by stripping various parameters from URLs. Will it strip parameters…

PSA: You can buy a domain directly from the iPhone Settings app

This is pretty neat. Writes Ben Lovejoy for 9TO5Mac : When configuring custom email domain settings on iOS, you can even buy a domain name directly from the iPhone. Kind of neat, if you're mobile-first. And one assumes you'll be able to access the resulting configured c…

FAQ: List Unsubscribe on Apple Mail on iOS

It was back in 2016 that we learned that Apple planned to add list-unsubscribe support to Apple's iOS email client , and that support came with iOS 10.  Many ESPs have long supported a special header, the "list unsubscribe" header. Google's Gmail and Microsof…

Schedule your email to send later on iOS

Thanks to a new feature in iOS 16, it's pretty easy for you to schedule an email you're writing to be automatically sent in the future at a certain time. Check out the how-to here , courtesy of Mac Observer. And if you're looking for more information on all the diff…

BIMI on iOS: It's alive!

Check it out -- it's our first taste of BIMI on iOS outside of beta. Apple iOS users who upgrade to iOS 16 can now see a BIMI logo associated with an email send, depending on what mailbox provider they use. All four of these CNN Newsletter signup emails were opened and view…

Apple launches BIMI support page

We knew that BIMI support was coming to Apple iOS and MacOS. And now, Apple has published a support page: Prepare your email server for BIMI support in Apple Mail . Reading through the guide, it sounds like support might   go beyond just Apple iCloud (mac.com, me.com, icloud.…

ICYMI: 2022 Apple MPP Status and Impact Webinar

More fun, more webinars, more info, all about Apple Mail Privacy Protection, aka MPP! If you're curious about the current state of Apple MPP and how it impacts marketers, my friend Jennifer Nespola Lantz and I presented a live webinar on this very topic recently. Find the …

BIMI ISP Status June 2022 (with forthcoming Apple support!)

It's time for another BIMI update, and this time it's chock full of new details that you'll want to know! So let's get right to it. The Authindicators Working Group (the folks behind the BIMI spec) have just indicated that Apple plans BIMI support!  The informa…

Apple MPP Opens: Spam Resource Data

Here's a quick and simple post where I take a moment to share with you the stats from my Spam Resource email newsletter  sends -- you might have already seen this in the CSA webinar I just did with Marcel Becker from Yahoo. But if not, here you go! As you can see courtesy o…

Let's track Apple MPP opens

Okay, they're not really opens. They're proxy-based, false positive pre-loaded opens. Don't think of them as opens. Think of them as something you want to get out of the way so as to not inflate your campaign tracking. I know, I know... Apple is not the only one pro…