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Vade acquired by Hornetsecurity Group
Business and email security vendor consolidation is in the news today. Vade (previously known as Vade Retro), known for its Microsoft O365 email security add-on Vade Secure as well as the Vade Threat...
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DMARC: Fun with external domain verification
If you know, you know. And if you don't know, I'm going to tell you, because not everybody knows this.The DMARC spec is such that you're really not meant to be able to just randomly send DMARC reports...
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Spam Resource Spotlight: Wayne Mehl
Wayne Mehl and I have a few things in common. We both had periods of time where we worked in the role of unix admin. We've both set up MTAs and reviewed MTA log data with an eye toward monitoring for...
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DELIVTERMS: B2B and B2C
It's that time again! Let's spend a few minutes decoding those delicious deliverability and email marketing acronyms -- it's DELIVTERMS from Spam Resource!This is a simple one (for some folks), but...
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Spotted at Aldi: Maple SPAM!
Apparently this isn't THAT new, as I can find some blogs and recipe sites talking about it back in summer 2023. But it's new to me! And personally observed by yours truly at an Aldi grocery store near...
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RQIBAADL: Random questions I've been asked about DMARC lately: a FAQ
Uh, zoom, zip! A quick one today -- allow me to cobble together a blog post made up of some quick answers to recently asked questions about DMARC. Let's jump right in to it.My DNS provider's control...
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Fun with bad data: That doesn't go there!
Today's data question: What if we scanned the top one million domains, looking for DMARC records and DKIM records misconfigured so that they're living at the top level of the organizational domain?...
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Come to the CSA Email Summit April 22-24 in Cologne
The Certified Senders Alliance is a valuable organization in the email ecosystem. A neutral interface between mailbox providers and senders of commercial emails, they bring together many email senders,...
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DELIVTERMS: CASL
It seems like a good day to decode another deliverability acronym. It's DELIVTERMS! The annoyingly random ongoing feature from Spam Resource, where we explain all those confusing deliverability...
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Gmail: New compliance dashboard in GPT
Google recently released an update to Google Postmaster Tools. There is now a new dashboard available to users that specifically highlights compliance pass/failure with their newly updated 2024 sender...
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Bonus: Beyond The Basics: An Email Requirements Roundtable with Google, Yahoo...
For this wondering what's going on with all that Yahoo and Google stuff -- or if you're hoping to get beyond it and hear what's next -- either way, this is something you'll want to attend. Join Seth...
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Spam Resource Spotlight: Skyler Holobach
My friend Skyler Holobach is Vice President of Product Experience and Design for SocketLabs. She knows her way around the email space, from deliverability consulting, to best practices and policy...
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SPF is good enough. True or False?
The other day I was doing a mini-consult for a marketing sender who uses one of those Marketing Clouds to send their mail, and the client's IT representative challenged my point of view: I suggested...
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Wombatmail, now with spam traps + more
It's time for a Wombat Update! I've got new data snapshots to share over on Wombatmail. In the new Wombatmail Traps section, you'll find a list of the top /24 network ranges that have sent email...
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DELIVTERMS: Catch-all
It's time for another installment of DELIVTERMS, the deliverability defining series here on Spam Resource where we break down all those confusing technical terms related to email technology, spam...
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iPhone users: dealing with spam messages
This isn't anything TOO earth shattering, but it was a nice collection of tips all in once place, so I thought it would be a good thing to share. (And I'm in Detroit today, so I didn't have much time...
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Admin update: Some links have changed
Over the past week or so, I've been fixing a few hundred older posts that became corrupted a few years ago. The net result is that some posts from 2016 or earlier may now have new URLs, leading to the...
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One click unsub confusion: Let's clarify!
A couple of years ago, I wrote a blog post called 'One Click Unsubscribe: Don't do it!' and ever since then, I think people have misunderstood it. Especially in this new age where Yahoo and Google now...
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Learning about the SubdoMailing Exploit
Multiple folks have shared this along lately and though I’ve mentioned it in passing in a prior post, I thought it would be good to pull together an overview and roundup of what this actually is, what...
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Now hiring: Braze
Customer engagement platform Braze is looking to hire an email deliverability consultant! Could that be you? In that role, you would: Provide fundamental to advanced deliverability support to our...
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