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Community/Collaboration Opportunities
Do you want to help protect and improve the email ecosystem? Well, you're in luck! Because for my most recent Valimail "Ask Al" video, I sat down with rock star deliverability consultant Jennifer...
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Davey Winder: Emails to Gmail vanishing?
Davey Winder writing for Forbes recently shared a tale of woe brought to his attention wherein an email sender points out that email messages they're sending to Gmail subscribers seem to be vanishing...
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French mailbox provider SFR adds BIMI support
It's always great to see another mailbox provider supporting BIMI sender logos!This time around, it is French telecommunications provider SFR (Société Française du Radiotéléphone). Their webmail will...
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The 2025 Deliverability Checklist
Back a few months ago, we warned all you email marketing senders to hold off on making any significant changes to your sending infrastructure and marketing strategy, so as not to upset the apple cart...
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Tuesday Tip: Don't send too often
Here's a lightly anonymized version of a true story that I overheard recently: Sender reaches out to big ISP X, asking for help with deliverability issues. ISP offers to investigate. When...
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Microsoft OLC/Hotmail Domains List (Updated for 2025)
Here it is, the first episode of "Fun with Data" for 2025. Today, I present to you a link to a downloadable list containing the top Microsoft Outlook.com (Microsoft OLC / Hotmail) email domains. Why...
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Apple VMC Support Update
For those interested in BIMI (Brand Indicators for Message Identification) sender logos, you likely already know that for maximum possible display of your BIMI sender logo, you need to have a CMC...
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NixSPAM blocklist shuts down
The maintainers of the "NixSPAM" blocklist (with a DNSBL zone of ix.dnsbl.manitu.net) have decided to shut down. As of January 16, 2025, their website at nixspam.net states that, "With a heavy heart,...
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Thank you, Chip
It is with great sadness that I share that my friend and marketing industry colleague Chip House has passed away. He left this world Saturday morning with his family by his side. Chip was suffering...
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DELIVTERMS: Author Domain Signing Practices (ADSP)
Author Domain Signing Practices (ADSP) is an add-on to DKIM email authentication. It provided domain owners with the ability to define a policy that asks mailbox providers to discard (throw away) email...
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Fun with data: Top Mailbox Providers in Japan
Here’s a fun-but-simple exercise: Take the list of top 10 million domains. Look for all of the domains for a given country’s TLD, in this case, .jp. Let’s look at the MX records for those and see who...
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You should hire: Walker Matzko
Today, I've invited email marketing pro Walker Matko an opportunity to connect with Spam Resource readers to assist with his job hunt. Here's why you should consider hiring him, in his own words:I am a...
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Friday Fun: Ray Lamontagne / Three More Days
Today's Friday fun? Just a song that I like, that reminds me of a friend.The song is "Three More Days" by Ray Lamontagne, and I love the funky, retro vibe; it's not brand new -- it's from Ray's 2006...
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Purchased lists: Updated guidance for 2025
Here's a common question I am hearing lately: "Everybody buys business intelligence data from business intelligence data providers. Usually including email addresses. Can't I just take that list and...
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Webinar Alert: Why DMARC Matters, with Valimail and Microsoft
Webinar alert! Coming up on February 19th, I'll be hosting a webinar, along with Ed Fisher from Microsoft, and we'll talk about:How does DMARC work and why is it important? What does DMARC protect and...
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Navigating Microsoft OLC Spam Folder Placement
Microsoft’s Outlook.com or OLC (Outlook Consumer) email platform, the mailbox provider formerly known as Hotmail, can be a tricky one when it comes to managing and mitigating deliverability issues....
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Friday fun: How Has SPAM Stayed So Popular?
You know that I blog about spam. And sometimes about SPAM. I'm a fan of one but not the other. Who wouldn't love something salty that tastes a bit like bacon, and fries up nice with eggs in a pinch? So...
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Now hiring: Klaviyo
Marketing automation platform Klaviyo is hiring! They’ve got three deliverability/compliance-related roles posted at the moment. There’s a posting for: Deliverability Strategist, Head of Global...
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From Illustrator to Inbox: Perfecting Your BIMI Logo SVG
If you're working on implementing a BIMI (Brand Indicators for Message Identification) logo for your email domain, congratulations! BIMI is an excellent way to boost your brand visibility, increase...
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Identify a sending platform by a sending IP or click tracking domain
If you’re curious which ESP or marketing automation platform just sent you a given email message, here are three easy things you can try.First, try the ESP Finder tool from Sendview. That’s probably...
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