Now hiring: Halon
Email infrastructure vendor Halon is hiring! "The leader in email infrastructure for service providers" is looking for fill the role of Integrated Solutions Engineer II. That person should be coding...
View ArticleCheckmylink: A Cool Tool to help you stay safe!
CheckMyLink (at https://www.checkmylink.gr/) is a cool tool I stumbled across the other day that lets you check domain names and URLs that might be malicious. I wasn’t quite sure of the scope or...
View ArticleSpam Resource Spotlight: Mickey Chandler
Mickey Chandler and I go way back. He's been working in the realms of email deliverability, policy, abuse prevention, and more for the entire time I've known him.Way back in the day, we both spent a...
View ArticleMicrosoft Outlook (on Windows) user? Upgrade now!
Brian Krebs posted his usual "Patch Tuesday" update for Fat Tuesday (yesterday, February 13th) and listed in there was a doozy, an email-client specific bug that I almost missed: "CVE-2024-21413, a...
View ArticleSeznam joins the CSA
The Certified Senders Alliance (CSA) provides a whitelist, reputation data and training related to email marketing best practices. It is a service of the Europe-based internet industry association eco....
View ArticleFriday Fun: Feel Good Inc (on Stylophone)
If you're suffering from DMARC-related malaise, perhaps this will help you forget about it for a few minutes. For absolutely no useful business reason, I share with you a cover of Feel Good Inc....
View ArticleNow Hiring: Simon Data
CDP (customer data platform) and marketing communication platform Simon Data is looking to fill the role of Senior Manager, Email Deliverability. In that role, the perfect person would:Provide hands-on...
View ArticleISP Deliverability Guide: Mimecast
Mimecast provides “cloud cybersecurity services for email, data and web,” specializing in cloud-based email management for Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Office 365, including security, archiving,...
View ArticleEncrypted email service Skiff to shut down
Add this one to the dead domains list ... eventually. Secure email (mailbox) provider Skiff has announced that due to being acquired by a company called Notion, the Skiff secure email service will be...
View ArticlePicking the right email newsletter platform
Here's a question I get asked a lot: What platform should I use for my email newsletter? And of course, the answer is, it depends, not only because I'm a weirdo who built his own email newsletter...
View ArticleDELIVTERMS: NDR
It's time to decode another deliverability acronym. Today, we're going to tackle NDR, which stands for "Non-Delivery Report."NDR is another way to say "bounce message." I consider them essentially to...
View ArticleSpam Fried Rice: Doesn't this sound delicious?
Yes, I do have various Google alerts set up watching for food-related spam articles. Or SPAM, in this case! Without those alerts, I wouldn't have stumbled across this deliciously described spam fried...
View ArticleGoogle is not sunsetting Gmail
If you didn't already know, that screenshot that's been all over social media, suggesting that Google is telling users that Gmail is to be sunsetted in August 2024, is a hoax. Don't believe the hype....
View ArticleBonus SFMC Tip: Configuring reply handling in Salesforce Marketing Cloud
Here's a bonus Salesforce Marketing Cloud tip for those SFMC users out there in Spam Resource land. Wondering how to configure the Reply Mail Management reply handling functionality? If so, very smart...
View ArticleSFMC tip: Salesforce Marketing Cloud and multi-bounce domain
Here's a tip that I think Salesforce Marketing Cloud users will find useful, especially in the context of the new Yahoo and Google sender requirements.Multi-bounce domain: Enable this feature to fully...
View ArticleFun with data: Apple Domains
For a fun little multi mini-snapshot of MX domain data, let's take a look at Apple. What do they host, mail-wise, for who and for what domains? Wombatmail Data to the rescue! Let's see what we can pull...
View ArticleDELIVTERMS: COI/DOI
DELIVTERMS: the ongoing series here at Spam Resource that helps you decode those pesky deliverability acronyms and technical terms. Today we're going to talk about COI and DOI.Confirmed opt-in (COI)...
View ArticleSpam Resource Spotlight: Carmi Jones
Carmi Jones knows deliverability very well. Right about the same time I was getting my start as Director of Deliverability at ExactTarget, she landed in an account management/deliverability consultant...
View ArticleSpamhaus: A new website, with new data
International anti-spam and security experts Spamhaus have been teasing the launch of their new website for a while now. And now that it's finally here, you'll want to check it out. Besides the usual...
View ArticleArne Allisat, GMX and mail.com: spam is on the rise
Writing for Data Centre Review, Arne Allisat, Head of Email Security, GMX and mail.com, explains that spam is on the rise, and that he believes AI is a big reason why. After all, the impact of...
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