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Spam Resource: Come and get a free att.net email account!
- December 6, 2023
- Posted by: Top Deliverability
- Category: Industry News Spam Resource
Al Iverson just published a interesting post on Spam Resource:
Did you know? You can sign up for a free att.net email account right this very second! And it’ll cost you nothing at all! I signed up for one myself, and it was a perfectly fine and easy process. Why would you want to do this? AT&T makes note of, the mailbox comes “in partnership” with Yahoo Mail, making it easy to assume that this is just a Yahoo Mail account with the att.net domain. But, those of us deliverability nerds out there remember that AT&T has some extra filtering here and there, before passing messages off to Yahoo. Or they used to. Do they still? The MX record for the various AT&T domains points to a different mail gateway — not the normal Yahoo Mail one. So the infrastructure configuration certainly implies that there could be some filtering happening a bit differently for an att.net mailbox versus a “regular”
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