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Deliverability
Tips and strategies to ensure your email reaches its destination.
What is RFC 8058 and what does it have to do with one-click unsubscribe?
Bulk senders have had a lot of questions around what implementing a one-click unsubscribe process means since the requirement was announced by Gmail and Yahoo...
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SMTP: Exploring port 587
When it comes to email delivery, not all SMTP ports are created equal. While port 25 might be the oldest port in the book, and port 465 had its moment in the sun, it's port 587 that...
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What is inbox placement and how is it calculated?
Email deliverability sometimes feels like a mirage. Your messages go on a long journey from your mail server to your subscribers’ inboxes. But it’s the last part of that journey that...
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Email hard bounces: The brick walls of failure
We’ve talked a lot about email bounces and email bounce rates as a whole in the past before, but we’ve really only ever dipped our toes into the different types of bounces...
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What is SMTP relay, how does it work, and why use it?
Remember relay races in school? Just as runners pass along a baton, an SMTP relay passes along an email from one server to another. Sinch Mailgun’s free SMTP relay...
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What is a honeypot, and how does it impact email senders?
The moment Vesper Lynd slinks onto the screen in Casino Royale, you know exactly how this will all play out. Despite being a world-class spy, James Bond will fall hard for the...
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The DMARC perspective: Protecting your sending in the age of stricter enforcement
The world of email is undergoing a significant shift. With Google and Yahoo recently increasing enforcement on DMARC, many organizations are having to implement DMARC...
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How to send bulk email: The dos and don’ts of mass email sending
Both transactional and marketing email messages can rely on sending massive amounts of email all at once. But while bulk is better when buying toilet paper, that’s not always the...
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How to keep your spam complaint rate low
It feels like a slap in the face. Or being dumped with the “it’s not you; it’s me” line. When an email subscriber marks one of your emails as spam, it feels like a betrayal. We were doing...
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What is Authenticated Received Chain and why should you care?
Authentication has been a top-of-mind topic in the email world for some time, but it feels like the buzz has grown after the announcements made by Google and Yahoo in October...
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