A representative of Facebook confirmed for me that the email service handling mail for facebook.com email addresses is no more. PC Mag had previously shared that FB was warning …
In case you've been living under a rock, or you've been lucky enough to not be affected, here's the deal: Some bad guys, probably Russian or Eastern European, have de…
Since about 6:00 am eastern this morning, Thursday, August 25, Yahoo has been deferring delivery attempts from almost everyone ESP or mail platform I'm hearing from. My guess…
Someone asked me the other day, where can they get a new IP address? Their current IP address is "blacklisted" at Yahoo and Hotmail, I was told. It's easy enough to…
Google just announced that if a message received at Gmail cannot be authenticated by way of either DKIM or SPF, the user interface is going to show a question mark in place of th…
Verizon announced today that they are buying (most of) Yahoo for 4.8 billion dollars in cash. Back in 2015, they purchased AOL for 4.4 billion dollars. This means that three di…
If you work the abuse desk for an email service provider, you've undoubtably gotten spam reports from angry Spamcop users who think that your ESP, your employer, is "re…
Periodically I create a virgin Gmail account and sign it up for something, to see what other kind of stuff might end up in the inbox. On February 22, 2010, I clicked on a single …
Word to the Wise's Laura Atkins is quoted in this article from Wired, " Mailchimp Sends a Billion Email a Day. That's the Easy Part ." It's not a bad primer…
I've been asked this question pretty regularly: How do I tell the world that a certain domain of mine isn't valid for sending email? What about typo domains, bad domains?…
It's been just over five years since a particular goober harvested his LinkedIn contact list and spammed me and a bunch of other folks. Consider that the next time it happen…
Various online sites are reporting that Apple's iOS operating system version 10 is going to add support for the list unsubscribe header found in many email messages. In case …
Another spammer put under the microscope! Brian Krebs reports on the FBI arrest of Michael A. Persaud , reported to be one of the world's top ten spammers.
Ah, Sanford Wallace . 1990s spammer, widely blocked and blacklisted, one of a few big bad spammers who made the rest of us realize that spam was a real problem and that we had t…
"Send to Dad by Sunday midnight!" the email's subject line exclaims. My father is currently in hospice care. He isn't reading a lot of emails. He probably doesn…
