Spam Resource: All Things Deliverability

As guest blogger Jaren Angerbauer mentioned on Friday , after this whole White House spam email debacle, they promised to "implement measures" to verify and validate email addresses. So far, there's no externally visible proof that they've actually implemented…

Today's guest post comes to us courtsey of Jaren Angerbauer, the founder and CEO of DeliveryVision , an email delivery consulting firm. Jaren has more than nine years of experience in the email deliverability space, and has established himself as an expert in the industry. …

Over on the Word to the Wise blog, Laura Atkins answers the question , is it wise for senders to block mail to various anti-spam companies? Read on for my take on the practice.

As recently noted on the AOL postmaster blog : "We are no longer sending report cards. If you have a complaint feedback loop, make sure you are monitoring your spam complaints and not relying on the report card to alert you to complaint issues." What were report cards…

Following up to my recent post about email forwarding, Rob Mueller wrote in, talking up his particular email provider. It's called Fastmail.fm.

Lifehacker reports that in their non-scientific reader poll, most of their users use Gmail as their email platform of choice. Is that surprising? Lifehacker users tend to be all about tweaks and configuration changes and using the best tools to get the job done. They probably…

I was talking to a group of friends the other day, and the topic of discussion turned to the term "Permission Marketing." How useless it is as a measure of best practices. Every ESP (email service provider) or direct sender uses the term, making it entirely neutral as…

In Dissecting a Pitch that Smells , Ken Magill tears apart an email list offer that smells too good to be true. Ken runs down the myriad of reasons why you should never trust anybody wanting to sell you an email list, from the open question of who the vendor actually is, how th…

If you're a SpamAssassin user, I recommend you swing over to my DNSBL Resource site and read about the dead bl.open-whois.org blacklist -- it's used by default in up-to-date SpamAssassin installs, and it's probably slowing down final delivery of your inbound email…

No, not exactly. But, according to Mickey Chandler, it looks as though Verizon customers can have their account configured so that mail sent to their Verizon.net mailbox actually lands at AOL, Yahoo or MSN/Windows Live. Confused? So am I. Read all about it over at Mickey's…

I've worked at a number of places over the years, with a ton of good folks, many of whom I consider friends. I keep in touch with just about all of them, via your typical social networking channels, but also directly via email. (After all, email is in my blood.) A number …

David Writes, "I was informed that (a company's domain) was being blacklisted by spambag.org which from my understanding is a dead listing. We are not able to receive emails from the company, and according to our email provider, 1&1, it is because of this dead blac…

Scott writes, "I use URIBL lists in SpamAssassin, and these are configured according to their documented purpose (URI checks). I am getting a lot of spam now which spamvertise email addresses, rather than a URI. The bad domain might be in the From: field, or it might be in…

Multiple friends have forwarded a long this very detailed CNet News article on email filterer Postin i (now owned by Google). Lots of good detail there, and it's definitely worth reading. From my perspective of helping senders, Postini has always been a bit of a disappoint…

Nate Anderson reports for ARS Technica: "A federal judge yesterday found Usenet.com liable for just about every copyright infringement claim on the books: direct infringement, inducement of infringement, contributory infringement, and (just for good measure) vicarious inf…

Terry writes, "My manager wants to take all of our emails addresses in our "pending" list (ones that haven't clicked the link for the double opt-in confirmation) and convert all 10,000+ of those addresses to active and start mailing them. My problem is no …

SORBS, a blacklist run by Australian Michelle Sullivan, has announced that its hosting agreement is being revoked at that it will soon be homeless. Click here for the announcement and my thoughts on what this means for SORBS users, over on my companion site, DNSBL Resource. Em…

Steve writes, "My email list has grown very large over time (it's about 80,000 now). I'm sending out a non commercial email article of a religious nature. It covers a controversial issue which I believe may lead to some recipients flagging it as SPAM, (even though …

Tayo writes, "Our Outlook client suddenly stopped relaying mails with the error "Sending' reported error (0x800CCC78) : 'Cannot send the message. Verify the e-mail address in your account properties. The server responded: 550 5.7.1 This system is configured …