gmail
Gmail's Promotional tab: How to escape
How do I keep my email messages out of Gmail's Promotional tab? This is a common question lately. Is there one common answer? Ask six di...
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doom
The big red warning box of doom
Here's the updated DOOM WARNING that appears on a suspicious message in the new Gmail user interface. But why, I ask, would it appear o...
authentication
Locking down your unused domains
Here's a neat DMARC trick that I would have implemented sooner, had I read MAAWG's " Best Practices for Parked Domains " d...
dead dnsbls
Spam Cannibal blocking list is dead
Multiple folks reached out to me overnight to let me know that the SpamCannibal DNSBL has blown up, that they have effectively "listed...
food
Spam recall: For real!
Remember how Outlook had that horrible "Recall" function that didn't work because anybody with a brain could just force quit O...
dead dnsbls
Whoops! Cyberlogic DNSBL Broken
Looks like the anti-spam blacklist at dnsbl.cyberlogic.net has listed the entire world. More info can be found here .
aol
AOL: No More Whitelisting
As AOL and Yahoo continue their transition into one platform, things were bound to change over time. As a result of this ongoing consolidati...
gdpr
Unroll.me to close to EU users
As mentioned on Slashdot, TechCrunch is reporting that unsubscription service Unroll.me is saying that EU users are no longer welcome, clai...
dead domains
Vodafone Ireland: vodafone.ie is a dead email domain
Even though the Vodafone Ireland domain vodafone.ie has six active MX records , this appears to be a dead email domain, and I suggest you su...
apple
Reference: Apple email domains
What are Apple's email domains, in case you were wondering? For end consumers, customers who have registered for Apple IDs and/or email ...
dead domains
Lycos Mail: Free accounts to be eliminated
Remember Lycos Mail ? No? Then you're probably under 40 years old. What I didn't remember is that it still existed. But while it sha...
gmail
This weekend: Gmail spam, from me, to me
"9 to 5 Google" reports on a new spam run that seems to have found and exploited some sort of loophole in Gmail spam filtering . A...
forbes
40 Years of Spam
Recognizing the upcoming 40th anniversary of spam (the bad kind), Forbes shares 25 facts you may or may not have known about everybody'...
cloudflare
Cloudflare Launches 1.1.1.1 DNS Service
Cloudflare just launched their own public DNS service . To try it, simply configure your computer to use the DNS servers 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0....
google
Goodbye, goo.gl
Did you use goo.gl to shorten links in email newsletters or text versions of emails? Looks like the ability to do that is going away . Doesn...
cloudmark
PSA: Time to update your ReCAPTCHA
Google's "ReCAPTCHA" API-based user validation process is very popular. So popular, that internet users are running into warni...
domains
Fun fact: Gmail has two domains
Did you know? Gmail actually has two domains. They are gmail.com and googlemail.com. The latter was used primarily in Germany from the launc...
authentication
DMARC: sp= policy not always needed
I've started to search for and catalog big brand DMARC records to look for ideas and suggestions, and also to develop some best practice...
250ok
250ok on DMARC adoption among top US colleges
Matt Vernhout of deliverability monitoring service provider 250ok reports that US colleges are slow to adopt DMARC . I'm not totally sur...
engagement
File under obvious? Engagement rules!
A bunch of friends have been forwarding around this link to an article from "EContent" entitled " Research Finds Email Sender...
gmail
Howto: Disable your Gmail spam folder
I have a few Gmail accounts set up where I programmatically download all the mail so that I can generate a report showing information about ...
news
Best US cell carrier for phone spam protection? T-Mobile.
I'm curious to dig into the methodology here to look for limitations, but so far so good. Money reports on a recent study to compare sp...
ask al
Ask Al: Group mail is being blocked, what do I do?
Recently, a reader wrote in with the following question: I host an email group of about 450 people who share a common autoimmune medical c...