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Since 2001, a blog and email newsletter published by Al Iverson. With over 468,000 words, collected in 1700+ articles and viewed more than FIVE million times (so far), focused on the topics of email deliverability, email authentication and DMARC, stopping spam, dealing with spam folder and spam blocking issues, complying with modern sender requirements, and much more. Thanks for visiting!
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Hey, big senders! It's time for another update regarding enhanced sender requirements put forth by a large mailbox provider. This time around, it is French mailbox provider L…
After I recently blogged about all of the different email render test tools I know about (including Testi@ ), HTML Email Developer David Gutierrez reached out to share somethin…
The Email Sender & Provider Coalition (ESPC) is pleased to announce its upcoming 2025 Fall Meeting, happening Thursday, November 13, 2025 at ArentFox Schiff in Washington, D…
Thanks to Laura M. Browning for inviting me to be part of HubSpot's Masters in Marketing blog/newsletter series very recently. In that interview ( find it here ), we talked…
Spam Resource turns 24 this year.  I started writing about email in 2001, mostly because I was spending my days fighting spam, running and/or wrestling with blocklists, and then,…
It’s only August, but if you send marketing email, you know what that means: Black Friday and Cyber Monday prep starts SOON! If not....now! BFCM is the busiest, most competitive …
Wesley Hilliard at Apple Insider covers  a story that has certain political fundraising groups up in arms : Apple's upcoming iOS 26 release will start automatically sorting m…
Every now and then, someone shows up in an email marketing or deliverability forum or chat room, trying to make the case that spam is somehow allowed. The argument usually goes l…
Google has very recently added new diagnostic details to its DMARC aggregate reports, and they're a big help for troubleshooting. Instead of digging through scattered email l…
Here's a cool tool that a colleague at Valimail created recently, and if you care about protecting against people spoofing your emails through lookalike domains, I think you…
It's so very 1982. It's electro, funk, and freestyle. It's got an 808. It's got a beat from a leftover, unused track, from prior production sessions for an Afrika…
I've been thinking about the intersection of A.I. and email, especially in the context of spam filtering, sender reputation, and authentication. Why? Because people ask about…
Did you know that AOL still provided dialup internet access? Me, neither. But, doesn't matter, as it goes away, as of September 30, 2025. AOL's even got a help article wi…
Short answer: Yes. Longer answer: Still yes, and here's why. Spamhaus. If you're in the business of sending email, you've probably heard the name. Maybe not as much l…
If you've ever wanted to scream into the void about chain letters, bad Photoshop, email forwards from your aunt who just discovered YouTube, or anything involving Bill Gates …