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Videoconferencing provider Zoom is getting into the email game. Their new Zoom Mail service will allow users to create their own user accounts using the zmail.com domain, but the bigger play is offering custom domain email hosting to paid clients. Surf on over here for more about the Zoom Mail and Calendar Service straight from Zoom themselves, or click on through here to read coverage and analysis of the launch from an industry blog called No Jitter.There are about fifty billion B2B email domain hosting options nowadays, so I’m not entirely sure that the world needs another one. But, add on services and bundles make sense for companies who want more to be able to sell to existing clients, and I do suspect there will be some interest here from the SMB-end of B2B, happy to consolidate a few different services into a single invoice. And honestly, so much mail
Blake E. Reid, writing for LAWFLARE breaks down the legal merits of the Republic National Committee’s lawsuit against Google over Gmail’s spam filtering. Starting with, “the trouble with the RNC’s pointillistic arguments is that they invoke a bunch of different laws that apply different rules to different kinds of platforms in different contexts.” It’s a good read and I found it full of insight. Check it out here.
Back in the day, these used to be called Postmaster Pages (or Postmaster Sites) and they are where email senders would go to look for help when having deliverability issues. Wondering what to do about mail bouncing at a mailbox provider or internet service provider? Need to submit a ticket to request that the mailbox provider reconsider mailbox placement? Those Postmaster Pages are where you’d find info and links.Do keep in mind that these contacts are not a “get out of jail free” card. Deliverability is generally reflective of sender practices and mailbox providers are loathe to grant free rein in the inbox to those who send unwanted mail. In other words, bad senders asking to get unblocked will often be told no, or will find themselves blocked again if they continue to send the same mail to the same lists that caused the initial blocking. If you’re getting blocked
I’ve blogged about the Friendly From before, just basically so (and you can find that here), but now, Jennifer Nespola Lantz takes it to the next level. Over at the Kickbox blog, she dives deep into how the Friendly From can impact deliverability success, guiding you through what you need to consider from a deliverability perspective when it comes to branding your from address. This is valuable insight. Click on through to check it out.
European telecommunications provider Orange has shut down email services in Slovakia. This means that the email domain orangemail.sk is no more.Orange notified users here that as of November 1, 2022 it is no longer possible to send or receive emails or SMS messages via the Orangemail service, and that users can access and download any existing messages through December 31, 2022.[ H/T: Jakub Olexa of Mailkit ]
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