Spam Resource: All Things Deliverability

Before my current life in this email universe, I worked in print production and pre-press , helping to assemble assemble advertising layouts for various ad agencies and brands, u…

Got any orange.es subscribers on your list? Or any lingering addresses from domains like wanadoo.es, eresmas.com, or mixmail.com? Not for long, as Orange (aka MasOrange) is disco…

Way back in April 2024, I shared that Google was working on adding a new “subscription management” feature to Gmail. And shared how similar functionality looked at the time in Y…

Last week, yours truly (Al Iverson from Valimail ) was joined by my friend Jennifer Nespola Lantz from Kickbox for a deep dive webinar on Microsoft's new bulk sender requir…

Starting in June 2025 and continuing into 2026, Comcast's Xfinity email service is transitioning to a new platform . Email users with comcast.net addresses will begin moving …

I'm currently serving as president of my building's condo association. It's not a huge building, just over a couple dozen units, but it's big enough that things c…

You thought you did everything right. You dutifully exported your SVG logo from Adobe Illustrator, you converted it to the tiny-ps format variant of SVG using one of the conversi…

Today on DELIVTERMS , the series here on Spam Resource where we help you decode deliverability and email terminology, we're looking at one of the core components of how email…

As of July 3, 2025, Cloudflare is enforcing a new requirement for its Email Routing platform: Messages must be authenticated with either SPF or DKIM in order to be forwarded. No…

Here's one I hadn't seen before. A sender was hitting this deferral when trying to deliver mail to Microsoft (Hotmail/Outlook.com) domains: smtp;451 4.7.652 The mail serv…

Way back in 2020, I shared with you " The Ultimate SPAM Cookbook " and a lovely review of it (with a few recipes) from Miriam Di Nunzio of the Chicago Sun-Times , and s…

As of June 4, 2025, Let's Encrypt has stopped sending out email reminders for upcoming TLS certificate expirations. They publicly announced the change in late June to make s…

The Wall Street Journal recently ran a piece warning readers not to click unsubscribe links in emails . The idea is that these links are sometimes traps used by bad actors to har…

Allow me to waste just a tiny little bit of blog space today to help you answer a question that you were probably afraid to ask: How do you pronounce the terms DKIM and DMARC? L…

Just about weekly, somebody reaches out to me with something like this: Help! Our email marketing campaigns are going to the spam folder. I read your advice, so I've implemen…