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Friday fun: EMF - Unbelievable
If you're of a certain age (that would be the second time this week I've used that phrase, ugh), perhaps you, too, purchased the debut album from Madchester-adjacent band EMF, called "Schubert Dip,"...
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Talking blocklists with Alison Gootee
For my most recent Valimail "Ask Al" video, I had a bit of fun chatting with expert deliverability consultant Alison Gootee on the topic of blocklists. The question I was most recently asked was, does...
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Welcome Axigen to to the BIMI bandwagon
Romanian mail server solution Axigen very recently added support for Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI) sender logos: "Build trust through visibility. Axigen X6 will now display...
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Tuesday Tip: Understanding Bounces
Bounces (also called Non-Delivery Reports/NDRs or SMTP rejections) happen when you attempt to send email to a recipient and that attempt fails, typically because the recipient's inbound mail server has...
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DELIVTERMS: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is the lingua franca used by mail servers to communicate with each other, in the process of sending and receiving email messages.Here's a greatly oversimplified...
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Yahoo and AOL domains (2024 Update)
Today in "Fun with Data," I present to you a link to a downloadable list containing the top Yahoo Mail email domains. Why would you need this? Maybe you run some certain mail server (MTA -- mail...
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Friday fun: Suggested email etiquette ... in 1985
Hot off the press! Well, not really. Courtesy of the RAND Corporation, here's a guide (from 1985) entitled Toward an Ethics and Etiquette for Electronic Mail, authored by Norman Shapiro and Robert H....
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Apple iOS 18.2 is out: My first impressions
The latest version of Apple's mobile operating system was released on December 11th and now I am able to experience the updated features of Apple Mail first-hand. Here's what I'm observing so far,...
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Tuesday Tip: When your message is too old
Have you ever run into the SMTP bounce message "too old"? Perhaps with a status code of 602? Here's what that means!This isn't an SMTP rejection code enshrined in the RFC covering email rejection and...
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Talking Spamhaus with Andrew Barrett
Last week for my Valimail "Ask Al" video series, I interviewed Andrew Barrett as Spamhaus.Following up on a prior video where the topic was blocklists (with Alison Gootee), I thought it would be good...
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F2f spam from antiquity to modern times
Spam fighters and email administrators of a certain age are likely to remember the bad old days of "formmail" spam.I've talked about formmail before, but if you don't recall, it was a popular perl...
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Friday fun: Die Hard is a christmas movie
Just remember, no matter what anybody might tell you, yes, Die Hard is a christmas movie.
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Happy Holidays from Spam Resource
Hey! It's Al Iverson here and I hope you'll allow me to share a quick "thank you" for reading the Spam Resource blog and email newsletter throughout 2024. I really do appreciate all of you, and I hope...
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Admin Note: Jason Thomas
Just temporarily placing a quick note here to let Jason Thomas know that I, Al Iverson, am the owner of Spam Resource, and have been the owner of this domain since I first registered it in 2000.I...
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Event Alert: Don't Miss Inbox Expo 2025
Inbox Expo is back, and they're bringing the excitement to Austin TX, May 21-23. Known as one of the top events in the email marketing world, Inbox Expo 2025 is where email pros, entrepreneurs, and...
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2024: The Year in Review: Top 5 posts from 2024
Wow! Spam Resource content has been viewed around 670,000 times in the past 12 months, according to my very simplistic Blogger tracking. Thank you all for helping to make that happen! And when it comes...
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2024: The Year in Review: A different top 5 from 2024
Here's more context related to what folks were reading on the Spam Resource blog in 2024. This top five is a bit different -- the previous post highlighted the top five most read things I published in...
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2024: The Year in Review: Even more things that happened in 2024
It's time for yet another walk down memory lane! This time around I just wanted to quickly recap a few of the important things that happened in the world of deliverability in 2024.DMARC got important....
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2025: Looking forward to the year ahead
Here are my predictions for what I think the deliverability landscape will look like in 2025. People always ask for these types of predictions and no matter what we think, they either never fully come...
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A beginner deliverability guide for open source geeks
A gentleman named Florian Effenberger, a long time "free and open source software enthusiast," has put together a neat little guide on email reputation and deliverability, aimed at folks who run their...
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