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US telecommunications provider Hargray offers broadband internet “throughout the Lowcountry region of South Carolina and the Savannah region of Georgia,” according to Wikipedia.They’ve recently posted notice that they’re getting out of the email business, indicating that as of February 2023, they will no longer offer residential or business email.Here you’ll find a timetable of wind-down in their different service regions, with the process beginning in December, 2022.It seems possible that some hargray.com email addresses could remain valid, if they’re business addresses used by employees of Hargray — I’m not really sure. Best to reconfirm, retire, or request an updated address from any hargray.com subscribers in your list as soon as possible.[ H/T: James T. ]
Dear Al: How much does your email address matter when it comes to getting mail through, i.e. what about addresses like mycompany.guru or mycompany.live?In those domains, the “.guru” and “.live” segments are called “TLDs” or top-level domain. You can find a whole Wikipedia page that dives into the details of what exactly is a TLD and another page provides a list of all the TLDs available in the world. (Though keep in mind, not every possible type of TLD is going to be available to you in your domain registration — some TLDs have restrictions based on geographic region, business or professional restrictions, and wildly varying prices.)It might be tempting to look for an alternate domain name, like spamresource.io, if I were looking to start a new Spam Resource business and found that I couldn’t use spamresource.com, because it’s assigned to this here blog. It looks cool, but is it
For today’s fun Friday share, let’s get in the spirit of the season with this comprehensive breakdown of common Halloween memes, courtesy of Wired’s Amelia Tait.We’ll get back on topic next week.
Multiple folks over on the Mailop list are reporting that Microsoft OLC (Outlook.com/Hotmail/etc)’s IPv6 inbound mail servers are deferring inbound mail delivery attempts with “451 4.7.500 Server busy. Please try again later” errors. The fix seems to be to stop trying to send it over IPv6 and send the mail to any IPv4 MX record instead, and then your queues will drain successfully.What domains are affected? Likely all domains I’ve listed here as handled by Microsoft, and only if you send over IPv6, and only if the recipient domain is a Microsoft-hosted domain that has an MX record with a hostname that maps to an IPv6 address.If you’re sending mail using an ESP or CRM platform, you’re probably not affected by this. Big mail sending platforms, especially US-based ones, almost exclusively use IPv4 IP addresses, not IPv6.Why is this affecting mail over IPv6 only? Nothing has been confirmed, but I
Wondering what domain names mailbox provider Fastmail uses for their email service? You’ll never get an exact list, as customers can point their own domains at the service, but it turns out that Fastmail has a built-in list of 110 email domains that they offer up for client use.As of October 2022, those 110 domains are:123mail.org, 150mail.com, 150ml.com, 16mail.com, 2-mail.com, 4email.net, 50mail.com, airpost.net, allmail.net, cluemail.com, elitemail.org, emailcorner.net, emailengine.net, emailengine.org, emailgroups.net, emailplus.org, emailuser.net, eml.cc, f-m.fm, fast-email.com, fast-mail.org, fastem.com, fastemailer.com, fastest.cc, fastimap.com, fastmail.cn, fastmail.co.uk, fastmail.com, fastmail.com.au, fastmail.de, fastmail.es, fastmail.fm, fastmail.fr, fastmail.im, fastmail.in, fastmail.jp, fastmail.mx, fastmail.net, fastmail.nl, fastmail.org, fastmail.se, fastmail.to, fastmail.tw, fastmail.uk, fastmailbox.net, fastmessaging.com, fea.st, fmail.co.uk, fmailbox.com, fmgirl.com, fmguy.com, ftml.net, hailmail.net, imap-mail.com, imap.cc, imapmail.org, inoutbox.com, internet-e-mail.com, internet-mail.org, internetemails.net, internetmailing.net, jetemail.net, justemail.net, letterboxes.org, mail-central.com, mail-page.com, mailas.com, mailbolt.com, mailc.net, mailcan.com, mailforce.net, mailhaven.com, mailingaddress.org, mailite.com, mailmight.com, mailnew.com, mailsent.net, mailservice.ms, mailup.net, mailworks.org, ml1.net, mm.st, myfastmail.com, mymacmail.com, nospammail.net, ownmail.net, petml.com, postinbox.com, postpro.net, proinbox.com, promessage.com, realemail.net, reallyfast.biz, reallyfast.info, rushpost.com
Thanks to a new feature in iOS 16, it’s pretty easy for you to schedule an email you’re writing to be automatically sent in the future at a certain time. Check out the how-to here, courtesy of Mac Observer.And if you’re looking for more information on all the different new email-related features in iOS 16, here you go, courtesy of Apple Insider.
What’s up with that Gmail political email pilot program, previously revealed by Axios and discussed by my friends Jennifer Nespola Lantz and Travis Murray (and me, and others)? Strangely enough, according to the Washington Post, Democrats are flocking to it, and Republicans seem to be avoiding it. Was this a bluff that they weren’t expecting Gmail to call? After all, a number of noisy Republicans complained about, and asked for a way through the spam filtering; they were offered such a path, and don’t seem to want to use it. Instead, the Republican National Committee is suing Google.Color me confused.Why do this now? It won’t be decided in time to affect midterm elections. It makes the whole thing seem like bit of a ploy, focused on publicity. And perhaps a bad faith one, given the opportunity the GOP was already offered to be able to bypass Gmail’s spam filters.And who
Did you know? There is a dog named Spam and he’s dressed up as a pirate for Halloween and he’s up for adoption, courtesy of the Hallie Hill Animal Sanctuary in Hollywood, South Carolina. If you live nearby, you probably should adopt this little guy immediately. Click here for the cuteness.
The email domain love.com was previously owned by AOL, then Verizon, then Yahoo, as the email services and corporate oversight changed for the AOL/Yahoo email services. From the context, it sounds as though it was once possible to have an email address at the love.com domain name — but no longer. Email service for love.com was ended by AOL/Yahoo as of July 31, 2022.It looks as though the domain name love.com was sold to a new company, which was speculated to have netted the domain owner rather a large sum of money.As of October 2022, the domain love.com does currently have an MX record (pointing to Google), but any love.com addresses on a typical marketer’s legacy list is likely going to be from the AOL days and not up to date, so I recommend suppressing those addresses.Please feel free to leave your best “love is dead” jokes in the comments
Estonian webhost and mailbox provider Zone now supports BIMI and will display a sender logo in Zone Webmail, if they’re able to. VMC is required. Find more details here.Doing a quick check of my domain data, I think that Zone’s primary email domains are:webmail.zone.eezone.com.eezone.eezone.euzone.fizone.ltzone.lvThey also host email for more than a thousand other domains for customers; all relevant domains have an MX record pointing to zonemx.eu.