email
HTML Email: JWZ's fault?
One-time Netscape Navigator developer Jamie Zawinski suggests that HTML support in email might have been his fault .
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apple
Whoops: iOS 11 Mail Microsoft Issues
If you've upgraded your iPhones to the just-released iOS version 11 and your email is hosted by Microsoft's Outlook.com, Office 365 ...
changes
Hotmail UK MX Change
The MX servers for Hotmail UK changed in DNS overnight. For those who are caching DNS or have hard coded DNS entries, you're going to ru...
friday
Haiku Break
So, what do we do? Deliverability! How? Nobody knows! -- Courtesy of my friend Sarah
authentication
Finding DMARC when it isn't there?
If you're running a mailing list manager, or dealing with a reply-handling mail system, like many ESPs have in place, you've learned...
admin
16 Years And Counting
LinkedIn just reminded me: Spam Resource is just about sixteen years old, give or take a week or two. After sixteen years (and over 1.6 mill...
authentication
DMARC will (not fully) fix it!
Over on the Word to the Wise blog, Laura Atkins raises the concern that in response to the recent "prank" email scandal , email t...
authentication
Most federal departments aren’t using DMARC: Wyden
Found on the Sophos Naked Security blog : Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) contacted the US Department of Homeland Security in a July 18 letter...
aol
AOL: Reputation corrected and request denied
Check out the reply I received in response to a recent AOL Whitelist Request submission: Subject: Reputation corrected and request denied Y...
best practices
Text to Image ratios in email
Laura Atkins of Word to the Wise explains: "The text to image ratio is not going to make or break delivery." I've certainly ha...
aol
Verizon Email Transition Update
From Network World, here is an update on the winding down of Verizon's email service, which I previously reported on here . When is the...
android
New Anti-Phishing Protection in Gmail on Android
Gmail app users on Android, rejoice -- Google just added phishing protection. If you try to click on a link deemed to be problematic, you...
best practices
Why list-unsub doesn't let you "opt-down"?
If you're familiar with the "list unsubscribe" functionality, support for which is implemented in Apple's iOS Mail Client,...
changes
Orange UK Email Closure
United Kingdom-based ISP Orange (now part of Everything Everywhere aka EE) has announced that they are shutting down their email service as ...
aol
Senders: What should you do about verizon.net?
As mentioned in a previous post, Verizon recently announced that it is getting out of the email hosting business. Verizon users are being g...
icann
Do you care about WHOIS?
There's an effort underway within ICANN where the net result could be that publicly-available domain ownership info is no longer availa...
aol
Verizon Users: Leave, or move to AOL
As reported last May , the Verizon email user transition to AOL continues, with Verizon now announcing that they have decided to " clos...
best practices
Password Reset Emails: Best Practices
I've been thinking about best practices for password reset emails lately. Instead of trying to re-invent a wheel that other folks have a...
microsoft
New Outlook.com/Hotmail IP ranges
Microsoft's Terry Zink announced yesterday on the Mailop list that Microsoft is combining the infrastructure for Outlook.com (Hotmail) ...
aol
AOL User Mike Pence
I usually try to avoid getting too political around these parts, but this one I just can't resist. Turns out, then-Indiana governor Mike...
boing boing
IBM Patents Out-of-Office Reply functionality
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 9,547,842 to IBM for an "Out-of-office electronic mail messagin...
chris truitt
Chris Truitt: A Guide to Microsoft SNDS
Deliverability Expert Chris Truitt was kind enough to reach out to me after he noticed my prior post lamenting the lack of guidance on what ...
anonymity
Sean Spicer and WHOIS
ARS Technica reports on Trump minister of propaganda (I think that's his title) Sean Spicer and how he registered a handful of domains ...
guides
What can SNDS tell you?
Microsoft Hotmail / Outlook.com's SNDS ( Sender Network Data Services ) portal is a useful interface where you register to be able to lo...