First Yahoo. Then AOL. Recently, additional Yahoo domains. Next up? Gmail. DMARC.org announced today that Gmail will move to publish a more restrictive DMARC policy in 2016. Read more over on Word to the Wise . (H/T WTTW)
Want to access your AOL or Outlook.com mail via Yahoo! Mail? Yahoo's got you covered . The deliverability consultant in me wonders exactly how this is accomplished. It might be that only the inbox folders come across and you probably don't get a chance to see anything i…
You may recall that Yahoo implemented a "p=reject" DMARC policy in April, 2014 for their primary yahoo.com domain name. (And AOL did the same for aol.com shortly after.) This changed the email landscape significantly. Among other things, email forwarding, discussion…
I'm not going to lie; I think it's a bit silly. But, I get asked about this pretty darn regularly: How can I put symbols in my subject line? Well, it's kind of easy. First, you have to know what symbol you want to use, then you just need to know what the right bit …
Over on the Official Gmail Blog, Google's Sri Harsha Somanchi lets us know that Gmail now offers the ability to "block" unwanted senders . Sri explains that after you block someone, any further mail from them will go to the spam folder. He also explains that the n…
Spam filtering still happens, but are blacklists where its at? Yet another one dies today , making for 25+ reports of DNSBL death since 2007 logged over on my sister site, DNSBL Resource .
From Brian Krebs comes the story of the fall and rise of internet hosting firm HostWinds . Founder Peter Holden explains how they came to get enticed into hosting spammers, which seemed very profitable in the short term, but turned out to not be so tenable for the long haul. In…
As reported on Slashdot: "[After recent spam filter changes at Gmail, Linux inventor Linus] Torvalds said his own experience [is] that around 30 per cent of the mail in his spam box turned out not to be spam." I see lots of false positives in my own mailboxes as well,…
I registered the domain spamresource.com on December 31, 2000 and in the year 2001 first used it as a platform to publish my thoughts and opinions on spam-related topics (hand coding the HTML all along the way). Throughout 2004 and 2005, I also used the domain name to house an…
Electronic Frontier Foundation's Jeremy Malcolm and Mitch Stoltz published an article yesterday quite reasonably expressing concern over a proposal in front of ICANN that would limit use of "domains by proxy"-style WHOIS privacy for domain registration services. …
It's been a little over a year since Yahoo and AOL implemented restrictive "p=reject" DMARC policies, saying you essentially aren't allowed to use their domains outside of their infrastructure. Death to mailing lists was predicted; but what seems to have act…
Return Path's Tom Sather explains when it's OK to use a shared IP address . Basically, when your volume is very low. He suggests that the cutoff be 50,000 messages a month -- below that level, you should be on a shared IP address. Above that, a dedicated IP address is r…
Over on her Word to the Wise blog, Laura Atkins shares a wonderful list of links to almost every email service provider's policy prohibiting use of bought lists or purchased email addresses. It's funny, working in this business. A prospective client might say, "w…
According to France-based Deliverability monitoring company DeliverNow, French ISPs Orange, SFR, and Laposte.net have deployed a new spam filtering mechanism powered by Vade Retro . This new filtering will dynamically block senders who have an elevated spam complaint rate. (I …
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 mail sent over IPv6 must authenticate with either Sender Policy Framework (SPF) or DomainKeys Identifie…
If you're trying to send mail to subscribers at clear.net or clearwire.net today, you'll notice that all delivery attempts are being rejected, because wireless data provider Clearwire has retired all email services as of April 15, 2015. Once upon a time, Sprint was …
On March 10th, the Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG) published a new version of the Senders BCP (Best Common Practices) document -- a solid overview and set of recommendations on how to not be a spammer. They're not particularly rough or tough…
In 2014, Yahoo and AOL both implemented strict "p=reject" DMARC policies on their primary domains. This presented challenges to both AOL/Yahoo users and various service providers. Yahoo implemented this new DMARC policy in February. AOL implemented the sample policy …
Ken Magill has the story on initial filings regarding the lawsuit brought by Craig Ames and Robert McGee against Spamhaus in the United Kingdom.
